This is Bailey, working on a new home for her buttercups.
They had lived with the bantams, in what we were referring to as a show pen, for a few years(at least the oldest hen and the roo.) But she is wanting to give them more room, and Wyatt got a Silkie roo for his favorite little Silkie hen, Trooper. This pen, after having been a temporary pen for meat chickens, needed to be relegated to poultry only, no goats.
So we moved the roof from another pen to this one, and she raked and raked to make sure she had all that she could of any remnants from the meat birds, and the night before last, all six buttercup hens and their sweet silly roo, Gallus, moved in. They must like it, because even after the move, they gave four eggs yesterday! Bailey might fire up an incubator over Thanksgiving, so she can have babies over the holidays when she can be around to see to them, but she has more than enough on her plate to do that now! Next up- that barn in the back is having a really rough time this monsoon season, so she and I are planning to tackle that today. Guess I had best get going!
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