What An Ordeal

You might remember the wind storms we had in November that took out a car and a half, my green house and the fence.  All through out the winter with the snow and the rain branches continued to fall off these trees.

So, they have to come down.  We have tried to keep as many trees on this property as we can but these are tall enough to fall on the house and they are right over our propane tank.

There are three maples that we are having a tree service cut down on Friday.

So we had to move the fence, carport and of course, the chickens.

I can't tell you how many times I have moved these chickens and it's no small feat.  That house is heavy and so hard to move so I got the perfect answer.

Chickens on wheels!  I went to Harbor Freight and bought 4 300 pound wheels.  Dave attached them to the bottom.  It took two tries to get the house tipped back over with out breaking out the wheels and but we finally got them moved to a temporary area until the trees are down and removed.

Once the trees are cleaned up then we will re-do the chicken area.

They were pretty stressed all day while we moved them.  I finally had to crate Mona as she was pacing the fence and panting so much I thought she was going to have heart attack.

The others finally settled in for a nice dust bath.

Once the straw and nest boxes were in place everyone was checking out the new location.

I moved the entire inner fence again.

Pulling out the stakes and pounding them in again is quite a workout.

All in all we got quite a bit done today towards getting our new fence and gate in.  It's time for a bath and a well deserved glass of wine.

Comments

[Tonya]

Or maybe a whole bottle! Jeeze!

[Egret's Nest]

What a clever idea! I love the hen house on wheels. Brilliant! What a lot of work though -- wow! I agree with Tonya above . . . the whole bottle!