1st Criminal Barrel installed

Hubby finished setting up the barrel, just in time for a thunderstorm to fill it.  The hose coils inside the oilcan base, but right now it is full of water also (Note to self - drill holes in bottom after we empty the barrel.

The hens are happy now that they don't have a downpour in their yard as the spout originates above and makes a wall of water blocking them either in or out of the coop.

Chickens are a gateway drug

New Chick Count:

2 Buff Standard Cochins
2 Red Bantam Frizzle Cochins
3 White Bantam Frizzle Cochins
12 Cornish (for nom-ing) Juju says watch video in link.
1 Golden Laced Polish Crested
1 White Crested Black Polish Crested
1 Black Crevecoeur

But wait . . . there's more

Hubby wanted Frizzles, so I ordered two from a feed store in Elizabeth (about an hour away) back in January. I called in March to add a half dozen Cornish to the order, only to find out that they had misplaced my original order.

The Bantam Cochin Frizzles were no longer available.

Hubby was not pleased.

But the feed store came through. Two orders were cancelled. The five unwanted chicks were offered to us.

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Juju's happy dance

New Chick count:

2 Buff Standard Cochins
2 Red Bantam Frizzle Cochins
3 White Bantam Frizzle Cochins

By Juju

Really?!?

yeah but how does this door work?

Here we go again!

We went to Murdoch's Farm & Feed today - to pick up some loose straw and chicken feed. Every time I have stopped by in the last month (and I have seem to found reasons to) I have hoovered over the chicks. Hubby convinced me not to get a couple 2 weeks ago, last week all the pullets were from black breeds, on Thursday Juju tried to talk me into Khaki Campbell ducklings.

I did not count on the Mesha's powers of persuasion today.

Our new pullets Buff Cochins and are reputed to be friendly "lap chickens." Although they are not great layers, reviews of them are positive. They also have feathers on their legs.

This should tide us over until our meat chickens (who were supposed to be here last week) come in.

It is a fowl thing, segregation

After 3 days of work, Hubby finished the new duck quarters. They are now in the back corner of the property, with a new sunken pond and a shade tree overhead. The dogloo (duckgloo?) was found by a dumpster a few blocks away, all the fencing was leftover from the chicken yard, so the only cost was for deer style netting over the top and heavy duty zip ties.

I would have liked to kept our birds together, but Quinn took his role of "rooster" way too seriously and I hope our hens will be calmer, and that all their feathers will grow back in soon.

With this move, Juju's chicks, newly named Chocolate & Pretzel have been moved out of the tractor. They are in the coop roosting for the night, we will see how things go tomorrow.