Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Chicken poo on the sidewalk!

The new house is great! Lily has learned to use the doggy door that are in the back but will not use the ones that are in the front, the cats are able to go outside without me having to worry that they aren't coming back and we have all but the old chickens at the house. The Ducks are in the front yard happy as could be. After a couple of days of putting them out for the day in at night the baby ducks are staying outside all the time now. They seem to like it and are getting along with the older ducks. They still do things separate like eating, swimming, or just free ranging but they sit together a lot of the time to. Jonathon built a little duck hut and the big ones will sit all the way inside while the babies sit at the front or just outside and they are together at night usually. We put up a fence to keep the ducks off of the sidewalk and to keep them from pooing all over it all the time. They are still looking for a way over the fence :/  Of course our chunky girl was getting picked on so me being a softy let her stay on the sidewalk side of the fence o_O bad idea! She poos more than the ducks do! So back over the fence she goes. The others still try to pick on her so we are going to have to come up with a separate little Suzie pen but I think we can come up with something good soon. She is the sweetest chicken ever and I can't imagine our little farm without her.
     The chickens are all set up in the back yard and seem to like it. of course the banty flock and the easter egger flock don't really mix a lot but they are starting to get used to each other. We have one feeder and one waterer out back for them and it seems to help with the making them get along problem. I noticed a couple of them mixing it up yesterday and getting along a little bit until one of the ever so happy bantys got in a huff and chased off the bigger chickens for some unknown offence. We should be able to let the baby bantams out this weekend so that they can all join the flock and be happy campers.
   Camping... I really want to go soon. I really want to try out a lure I got last year but never got a chance to use before life got in the way and we didn't make it out to the lake before it got to cold to fish. I really like fishing with my family, it's peaceful. i wonder if I can convince Jonathon to go for our 3 day weekend???

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