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Mikie has been out of school for 2 days and he has already successfully completed one of his goals for the summer. He is a member of his schools FFA and Agriculture Biology program and they hatched chickens a couple of months ago. With summer coming and the chicks getting bigger some of them needed a new home. (Mainly the baby boys!!! School is in a residential area and I guess they are worried abot the noise in the mornings?) I guess this is a good time to appologize to my neighbors!
First and foremost on his mind has been building a chicken coop! As soon as payday came around he ran to collect his check and cash it, then he drug me to Home Depot for supplies. We worked most of the day on Thursday, even driving to Hurricane to get grandpa in on it. (Thanks for the help with the ply-wood & use of the table saw.) He finished nailing it together and stapling the Chicken Wire on at about 12 am Friday morning.
(He is a slave driver!!!)
Of course he was up early wanting to finish up so he could bring the little guys home, ASAP! He recruited a few helpers for the morning and finished the nesting beds, moved it off of the porch and into the yard and stained it! (he does still have a bit to paint, but apparently he is going to wait for another day for that.)
Mikie anxiously called his teacher and made arrangements to run to the school. He needed me to go with him, after all he spent his check builing the 'coop', I was needed for food! Off we went to collect our charges. It was quite humorous to watch the guys try and decied which ones were roosters and which were hens, I do believe that they decided they were to young to tell and we may have to do some swapping of chickens when they get alittle older. After gathering 3 unknown birds, food & hay we arrived home with the callenge of introducing the little guys to the 'puppies' who are the ones that really run the roost! They are both very curious and we will definatly have to keep a close eye on them for a bit.
I had a really great time (even in the 94* heat on thursday)
helping Mikie plan and execute this adventure of his.
With summer just starting there is alot of time for more adventures to come!
First and foremost on his mind has been building a chicken coop! As soon as payday came around he ran to collect his check and cash it, then he drug me to Home Depot for supplies. We worked most of the day on Thursday, even driving to Hurricane to get grandpa in on it. (Thanks for the help with the ply-wood & use of the table saw.) He finished nailing it together and stapling the Chicken Wire on at about 12 am Friday morning.
(He is a slave driver!!!)
Of course he was up early wanting to finish up so he could bring the little guys home, ASAP! He recruited a few helpers for the morning and finished the nesting beds, moved it off of the porch and into the yard and stained it! (he does still have a bit to paint, but apparently he is going to wait for another day for that.)
Mikie anxiously called his teacher and made arrangements to run to the school. He needed me to go with him, after all he spent his check builing the 'coop', I was needed for food! Off we went to collect our charges. It was quite humorous to watch the guys try and decied which ones were roosters and which were hens, I do believe that they decided they were to young to tell and we may have to do some swapping of chickens when they get alittle older. After gathering 3 unknown birds, food & hay we arrived home with the callenge of introducing the little guys to the 'puppies' who are the ones that really run the roost! They are both very curious and we will definatly have to keep a close eye on them for a bit.
I had a really great time (even in the 94* heat on thursday)
helping Mikie plan and execute this adventure of his.
With summer just starting there is alot of time for more adventures to come!
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