Turkeys And Chicks Are Here!

Chicks and Turkeys

Finally!  We've been waiting for these little cluckers for a while now.  Last Friday Kenn picked up our order of seven New Hampshire chicks, nine Delaware, and two turkeys.  Two of the Delaware chicks are roosters.  We are hoping to breed and hatch our own chicks and turkeys one day.

With our new addition we need to amp up work on finishing the barn coop!  I haven't been so helpful recently as a mole in my front landscaping has captured much of my attention.  He just won't die!  I should write a post about ten different ways not to kill a mole.  One of them being: don't stand over the moving mole hill with a shotgun because you'll be there all day which makes you late for your dad-in-law's birthday dinner.  But I digress...

Kenn has been ripping boards like a mad man to finish the siding on the barn coop.  Next we will finish the three doors.  One for us and two for the chicks and turkeys which will lead to the run.  This run will have tall enough fencing and netting over the top so that we don't have bobcats eating our chickens again.  Hopefully we can get all of this finished within the next month so that all 18 birds can be moved out of their current box house before they get too big.  I guess I should table Project Kill Mole for a while.