And thus opens a new year
I had, literally, the best birthday I've had in many years. My son remembered my birthday, my boss bought me lunch, my employer gave me balloons and a coffee cup and a really cool card, my sweetie took me shopping for toys and bought me dinner, and when I got home this morning my roomba was waiting patiently in its box. :-)
I'm going to finish up the chicken run tomorrow or Saturday and take the chickens out for a run. As it were. They're big enough now to be kind of crowded in their enclosure, and they scramble for greens when I put them down, and the weather is nearly warm enough to be tolerable. Unfortunately, I also broke their heat-lamp, but I think that between the higher temps and their age/size, they should be ok. I'll keep an eye on them and bring them in at night until we get the coop finished.
In other news, I'm very suspicious that we've got one (and only one) chicken who has started developing a comb. Wanna bet he's a rooster? Heh.
They are curious little critters, and getting calmer about being handled.
See that comb? I think we may have to call him Mr. Dinosaur
Dinner time!
I'm going to finish up the chicken run tomorrow or Saturday and take the chickens out for a run. As it were. They're big enough now to be kind of crowded in their enclosure, and they scramble for greens when I put them down, and the weather is nearly warm enough to be tolerable. Unfortunately, I also broke their heat-lamp, but I think that between the higher temps and their age/size, they should be ok. I'll keep an eye on them and bring them in at night until we get the coop finished.
In other news, I'm very suspicious that we've got one (and only one) chicken who has started developing a comb. Wanna bet he's a rooster? Heh.
They are curious little critters, and getting calmer about being handled.
See that comb? I think we may have to call him Mr. Dinosaur
Dinner time!