Also, our chicks are two weeks old today. I have decided that the broiler chicks are just icky. They are growing so fast that their fuzz/feathers can't keep up. All they do it eat, drink and poop. Repeat. They are not too bright either. I think my annoyance with them is God's way of making it very easy to imagine eating them dinner. Actually, even though they are still little, when they are just laying around looking fat, I have visualized them on the grill with a little BBQ sauce. Yummy! Now our laying hens are sweet (or at least they are suppose to be all hens). They are getting their feathers in and right now they kind of look like a wild bird, maybe a little bigger. Their colors are starting to really show in their feathers. They eat and drink half as much as their fat cousins next door. They also poop way less.
We are still working on getting the coop ready. I think though that we are going to build a chicken tractor for our broilers. They will only be in 3 or 4 weeks before they are butchered, but they are inexpensive to build and we could use it next year. A chicken tractor allows the birds to be completely free range. You just move the "tractor" around your yard to keep them from destroying the ground in any one place. Their poo serves as a great fertilizer, they eat up your bugs and the chickens tend to be healthier. Our hens will go straight to the coop.
Oh and something exciting happened today! I have 2 seed sprouts!!! I was so excited! I think they are my snap peas. You don't know how good it is to see a couple sprouts of green across the vast pots of dirt. I just hope the rest start showing up soon!
Julie
Thanks for keeping me updated. Love ya, mom
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