We are still working on the movable coop. It's a good thing we're using this old hay rack as a coop. I fell through one of the boards while working on the coop and if I had been throwing a 40lb bale of hay when the board broke, it could have been a lot more painful that it was. It will be another few days of work before we're ready to move the hens to the pasture in their new movable coop.
Our newest chicks are going to the pasture this weekend. They'll be put in one of the Salatin huts and moved around the pasture. The older hens have been roaming around the yard every afternoon, enjoying the green grasses that are starting to come up, eating the occasional worm or bug that is about, and eating corn that was dropped while carring corn from the gravity wagon for feeding our corn stove all winter.
The hoop building that we'll be using to store our hay in is finally underway. We cleaned out the old fences and iron that was in part of the grove where the new building will sit, and we will have a dozer brought in to clear the area of trees in the next couple of days. Sharon is broken hearted over losing the trees but once we plant lower growing trees and other plants around the new building I'm sure we'll learn to like it... I hope.
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