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Chickens

I have nine chickens. One slightly older one lives in a coop in my back yard, and the other eight are still little and live in a watering trough in my laundry room. Raising chickens is hard work, but you get a lot out of it. So far, we’ve got about a cubic yard of awesome compost made of a combination of all our kitchen scraps with the wood chips and chicken poo we’ve cleaned out of the trough. It’s not composed yet, of course, but it’s on its way and I’m excited. I’ve been tweaking the compost pile I built, adding mesh around it so the stuff doesn’t fall out and reinforcing the structure some. It’s a beautiful compost pile. Truly.

Every day, someone has to make sure the chickens have enough food, grit, water. The big chicken outside has to be let out of her coop in the morning, and shooed back into it before dark. raccoons eat chickens, and hunt at dusk, so we have to have her protected by that time of day.