We were given two chickens last week from neighbors who live about a mile down the road and also attend Cowboy Church with us on Sundays. This is Leonardo and Mona Lisa. They are golden campines. And yes, Leonardo does wake us up every morning! Skip set about designing the chicken habitat last week. We went to the farm supply store and bought a ready-made rabbit hutch for the roost. It works out just fine. And the chicken yard is actually a dog run. If you can't see it, there are wheels on the dog run so we can roll the chickens to different spots on the ranch to feed. We also feed them corn scratch and table scraps. And Mona Lisa has graciously given us two white eggs which we had this morning for breakfast.
We have to protect these critters from predators, so we will be putting a top on the dog run as well. There are hawks and owls that would just fly in through the top and snatch them. We also have to worry about coyotes, bobcats, snakes, raccoons and skunks.
When we have to be gone from the ranch for any period of time, we plan to hire the young man (high school freshman) from the family that gave us the chickens, to feed and water the chickens and the dogs.
More later - over and out!
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