Long time no post! I have been super duper busy lately and getting the time to come in and post has been a doozy.
The chickens are doing great! Everybody is outside in our coop/run and they are lean mean eating machines. They have already eaten all the grass in the run and I think its only been 3 weeks! Fine by me, in the next week or so we are going to fill the run with sand. From everything I've read it keeps the run dry, the smell down, and chickens like to dust bath in it. Although, atm I do not smell anything in or around the run, but I would like to keep it that way. Probably pick up a bag of the horse stall dry out stuff as well to help facilitate my goals.
They have almost gone through the 50lb bag of food and getting ready to open the next one. Surprisingly, they don't eat as much as I had anticipated, though I expect this to change the larger they get. Dinner has a kill date of about 2-4 weeks. She still is psycho bird, so she has to go. I have not handled the little ones very much to know who gets the slit there and who stays. I guess it will be a random guess when that time comes.
As far as the garden goes, yuck. I left it to seed last year, which I know was a huge mistake. At this point I am going to buy some of the contractor black plastic and cover over half the garden with it. This has a two fold effect - it essentially kills everything underneath it and it will make next year a breeze at garden prep. I thought of letting the girls take care of it and am still entertaining that idea, but that would mean building something for them to stay in. That is not out of my realm of stuff to do. I could put 4-5 of them in a box type set up, something that I can move once they kill that area of ground. It would be cheap since I have the chicken wire and plenty of leftover wood. Hell, I may just do it.
School is going good. I am actually taking the time to study this time around, which is new to me. I know when my answers are wrong and get really frustrated if their not right. Tomorrow is my first test and I'm slightly nervous. I'll post up how that goes. Other than that, everything is just dandy.
