Bob built a door for the chicken palace, which caused great excitement.
They’re still not fully feathered, but they are the most adorable.
They are heavy bellied and loose feathered, with giant feet. Right now, their first tufts of tailfeathers are appearing.
They have a whole program during the day: they’ll all stream out the door and run to the grass next to the ditch. They eat bugs, scratch the ground and have dirt baths, and then they all go back into the chicken palace for a nap.
All 23, all together, about four or five times a day. Their best trick is the dust bath. When they were penned in the hoop house and moved daily, they used to try to build a dust bath in a day. Now that they’re going outside, they’ve been working on the same dust bath for nearly a week.
This round section fits up to four chickens, and this strip bath
fits five. They carefully layer their feathers with dirt. I think it must itch to grow new feathers, because they are very careful about fluffing dirt over their entire body.
We’re talking chicken bliss, working some dust through his feet feathers.
Life is good.
2 things,,,,,,AWWWWWWW !!!! and YUM!!!!
well, now i know what i want for my b’day! been looking for a tractor design i like…yours is it! gonna give it a try for turkeys also!
thanks for putting your plans up! your chickens are adorable!