Of jail-making and jail-breaking
Well, I went out this morning to find Adam and Eve (or Adam and Steve or Ada and Eve...I'm not sure yet) were doing OK, so the rest of the ducks went in and are doing fine. Rusty took all the chickens out and was cleaning the brooder house. She had hers in a chicken wire circle and my little ones in a cage she found on a treelawn (maybe a ferret cage by the looks) and had me working on rehabbing the chicken tractor. I put a door in it. Got my plastic tubes up but the weren't rigid enough. I need to invent a better system. She left for a dental appt. and to get more bedding. I put Rusty's birds in the CT and put some of mine (which were smaller) in the wire enclosure (because they were WAY overcrowded in the cage). I went back and was weeding strawberries. It was getting hot and humid and I figured I should go in for water. Lo, there were about 4 chicks running loose. I caught some but then one of the Araucanas went straight up out of the cage like a helicopter. Couldn't catch it, and then it started to storm. I got the birds inside (no bedding down as Rusty had wanted things to air out). We got about 1/2". By the time Rusty got home I was in a funk because of the weather. She set up bedding in the brooder (without the strategically-placed feed bags, "which were all poopy") then went off again. After dinner she had me tearing down fencing and reconfiguring it. We quit for the night about 8. I went to feed animals and called Rusty out because almost all the chicks had worked their way into the rabbit room (from which they could get outside easily.) We got them herded in and their holes fixed. I also spotted the escaped araucana in the hen house, but he escaped again. Hopefully he will have the sense to stay with the big birds.
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