So far the hens have only explored the 1st couple of feet of it, and have been mostly concentrating on taking apart the berm they created against the bottom of the old fence.
GB mostly worked on another concrete intensive project- a walkway on 2 sides of the new chicken run. Here's an area he set up where the drainage pipe for the hillside will go under the walkway and then into the chicken run area and into a pond.Most of his day was framing on this big project that will make it a lot easier to walk around and near the birds.
Our other weekend project was setting up the electric moveable goat fencing. We 1st put them under the big mango tree.... the grass was high there, there's tons of shade, and we could keep an eye on them from the house.
They came easily to the new enclosure and all seemed good until....
They came to the fence-line (to come to us) and when the 1st one got zapped by the fence and screamed, the others freaked and they all ran right into the fence and were immediately entangled! I ran to unplug the electricity and GB and I had a hell of a time trying to untangle them. We were almost ready to scrap the whole thing after that. It was scary.
But we tried again- with GB standing guard (and taking his lunch out with them). They have mostly stayed away from the fence since. They will touch it occasionally, but have seemingly learned their lessons!
We've been putting them in there in the day and then taking them back up to their paddock at night.
Yesterday was so beautiful and GB and I enjoyed the light as we went up to put them to bed.
Here I am feeding them a bit on the way up. They will do anything for food
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It's a labour of love, ain't it. Well - you are all doing great there, and your hens and goats look GREAT!
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