06 May 2004
Ready to Brood

And I'm not even sure it's a verb ... we constructed a brooder today for our soon-to-arrive chicks. We used a cast off water tank, the kind used in highway construction (no labels, but probably 750 to 1000 gallons). Removed the valves, cut a door, installed a fan and capped the open top to prevent rain seepage.

After that, we repaired some winter damage to the henhouse, and are getting ready for our first season selling eggs off our back porch (last year we took orders and delivered). Kris is getting a sign ready, and Kevyn's going to bring back some of our hens (or more probably some new ones) next week.

So I'm bushed! Haven't looked at the news or even read my mail all day. Hope to have a picture or two up tomorrow, before I take off again (to NC, this time) for the weekend.

Oh yeah: we now offically own Donner and Blitzen. Kedrick didn't want to buy the milk replacer we'd used for them, so we took the litttle beasties instead.

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