After church today, we were a little late heading out as the Bailey was creating plans to bring chicks and blown eggs in for a unit in the Sunday school class she helps with. By the time she and her friend were done, they were planning to sneak chicks home with the youth minister's daughter! While I think chickens are a decision the parents have to be willing to give thumbs up to, I got a good laugh out of it, but we were a bit late headed home, and missed the Tumamoc walk for today.
A friend of Charlie's from work has been working hard to prepare a coop and came by today for chickens. They decided to start out with slightly older birds, two new layers and one three month old. I know they will be well loved. We gave them some food to mix in, and are so excited to see more folks with coops in town.
We got a bit of a late start working on the doe barn project, but did get two posts in, and the side panels attached to those two.
They are bolted in with ten inch carriage bolts. We are using bricks underneath, since we want the wood up above the termite level.
This is the back corner. It took a little work, but the first two panels are level, and we will keep adding on this week.
This end will still need some work after the upright goes in later this week. We wired on a gate as a panel for now, since hte does really need some room to get around with a very grumpy, likely pregnant Silver.
We ended up swinging the panels back out, Bailey was removing brackets and reattaching them as the larger pen while I was doing a few waters in my pens.
This larger panel is temporarily there as more security. There will be more rearranging each day this week as we go!
This is the door Wyatt designed and built from recycled materials for the other special pen project. That one is still ongoing, hoping to get more done with it tomorrow afternoon when we take a break from school work for a bit!
Well, we plan to show the progress as it goes, and are looking forward to being done and having a beautiful new space for the does! Have a great project for your animals? Would you like to share? Send it on over!
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