My hubby made a comment last night about how he thinks we may have more livestock in the house than outside. I reminded him that we do still have more outside than in, but would take his point under consideration.
We built a nice little pen for the goat kids in the shed out of pallets. It is one pallet deep and two and a half pallets wide. We used a smaller pallet as a gate. I found some hinges from the hinge can in the cupboard (taken off old cupboards). J was at school working on a project with K so I had to screw the hinges in by hand, but that was pretty easy. The chickens helped to spread half a bale of straw around on the floor of the pen and once J returned with a hook latch...we were ready to go.
The babies weren't too sure about it at first, but soon found that they could walk right through the openings in the pallets. We quickly fixed that with an extra board or two. They enjoyed having more room to romp. We brought them in at night, but plan on having them outside after tomorrow. We'll hook up a heat lamp in the corner so they have extra warmth. It'll be nice to have them out of the house. As much as I enjoy them, they are harder to ignore when they see you walk past all the time.
Oh, Zeus is feeling much better...not sleeping half as much as he was before. Good to see him acting more like a kid.
Now we just need to get the dozen chicks into an outdoor brooder.
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