Saturday, April 19, 2008

Chicken Farm

Transformation is the name of the game in this photo. Our back yard has this old dog pin in it. Since our dogs are treated like a king and queen they spend their days with us and rarely, if ever in the pin. With that in mind we got the idea to change the dog pin into a chicken pin. Phase I, as soon as some of this snow melts we'll make a few repairs to the fence, put on a new gate and erect the chicken coop. Phase II, early May we have a friend that is turning over his flock of ten laying hens for us to raise. We'll be taking over a few different variates of chickens (Road Island Reds, Latrops and Araucanas) with about 80% of the eggs being blue/green in color. Phase III, get first hand experience raising chickens, collect eggs, make omelets. Stay tuned for chicken farm updates.