Chicken Hoophouse Completed
Brian started work on the new chicken house a couple weeks ago. This is also a hoophouse but covered in white plastic to keep it cooler. Putting on the plastic takes a very calm day. Usually we have to put it on in the evening when the wind has died down. That is how this latest house worked and we didn't finish until after dark. Crazy thing is, the weather that evening called for calm winds all night. We returned home and no sooner did we all get our shoes and coats off but the wind kicked up. We would have lost the battle with the plastic for sure. You just have to imagine trying to hold on to a huge piece of plastic in a lot of wind. You can't do it.
Chicken Hoophouse The Morning After Plastic Went On
Moving Those Chickens Out Of Here
We have been keeping the laying flock here at home over winter but there are 300+ chickens here and that's too many. The new hoophouse will get the chickens down to the field where they belong. While at here at home, the birds are allowed to wander freely grazing all the time. But they are destructive. No freshly dug ground escapes their keen senses. No flower, no tomato plant, no seed planted gets past their aggressive scratching. For those of us who like to plant, it makes for a rocky relationship between gardener and poultry flock. But the birds are mostly relocated to the garden at this point and are feasting on the absolutely lush pasture. Instead of fertilizing our yard, they are fertilizing next year's garden.
A Good Sign There Are Too Many Chickens Here At Home
Laura Sits In The Lush Dense Pasture Shared By The Chickens and Grass Fed Beef
Squash Takes A Walk...On Our Lettuce Transplants
