Project Reveal

So this is the project. Renae and I are attempting to raise chickens this year. The chicken wire covered pvc and irrigation tubing is our "chicken tractor". Our chickens will be pseudo-free range as they will be out on grass and we will move them every couple of days in the "chicken tractor". We have started with 20 and may be down to 19 already as one appears to be a bit more than traumatized from being mailed from Pennsylvania, getting unloaded at friends house, being picked out by Renae, driven to her house, and slid into the holding pen.

We will keep this in the barn until the chicks have feathered and then move the contraption to the back part of Renae's four acres. The lady we got them from suggested solar lights to keep the chickens calm and help with keeping out predators.

It was kind of neat when I was telling my dad about about our wild-brained idea that he had a transportable coop when he was a boy that he moved around their yard.

Another idea given to us was to use a red light to give the chicks a pinkish/reddish color. If they see blood on another chick they will peck it to death so the red tint protects them in case they get scratched and bleed. Who knows? We're pretty much buy whatever people tell us we need.