Another New Project

Spring is the time for projects.  The weather is good, the bugs aren`t bad, and after a winter of being cooped up, we are ready to work!  Last year, one of our major projects was getting chickens.  They survived the winter, however, their laying has slowed down, so we thought we should think about replacing our layers.  Last week, we headed out to  the hatchery to pick up these wee babes!

We decided to make our flock a bit bigger this time, so we got 20 laying birds.  We also thought we`d try our hand at raising some broilers, so we got 20 of those as well.  Lastly, I really, really, really wanted to try to raise a few turkeys.  We bought 2 to try them out...

Here they are.  We named them Thanksgiving and Christmas.  We`ll see how that goes... But they are awfully cute!

After making it through the winter, and expanding our flock, we also realized that it would be great to have a bigger chicken house.  Hence, our next new project...

A chicken mansion!  We had friends that got chickens for the first time, so the guys got together, and worked their butts off all weekend and built not one, but 2 of these bad boys!  They got them framed, the walls on, and the roof done.  They worked really hard, and got lots accomplished!  On Sunday, Art was just finishing up the roof...well, Art and I.  I did help, you know.  Really!  I cut shingles for them, all afternoon.  I should be a roofer`s assistant....not!  Anyhow, Art stopped for a little break and we went up on the roof to have a drink with him.  It was a pretty nice view from up there.  And no one even fell off (not then....Art did fall off the roof flat on his back earlier in the  weekend....thank goodness he was not injured!) 

There`s still lots to do, but at least the really hard manually work is done... the rest we can do together.  I am looking forward to seeing the chicken mansion completed....hopefully soon!  The chickens are outgrowing their box!