Camping with Chickens...

We had a pretty crazy weekend. We finally got the chicken ark competed and moved the laying poults out to the land. They were quite happy to get out of the cinder block dungeon and wading pool at the rental and to get their first really taaste of sunshine and fresh air. It was a beautiful weekend weather wise and we planned a get together and campout at the land. It was in the 80's during the day, and a comfortable 60's at night. We had about 10 friends show up and had a nice evening and food around a bon fire. The kids really liked camping out.

One of only two tents in our backyard, kids playing boomerang catch with one of the adults...

The luxuary chicken ark... that weighs so much I am not sure how we are ever going to move it more then a few feet at time, which is luckily generally the idea. Roosts and nesting boxes are on second floor.



The meaties are doing pretty well. this was their first day out of the tractor they did not wander far. They like to stick around the food. We just found out the lady we rent the plucker from was booked for our planned harvest weekend of May 20th, we are tentatively bumping it back a week... I hope they can take the heat an extra week! They are just a little over 4 weeks old now. Baby turkeys arrive on Tuesday!