More fun than a wagon of bassets

Sam, the minion, and Josh are hard at work with the auger making holes for the fence. What fence you ask? We're pulling back the fence on the north side of the house to the back of the house from the front. This will give us more room to plan the garage and make it easier to bring equipment into the yard as the new gate will be long enough to let a truck through. The one we have at present barely allows a wheelbarrow.

I've segregated out next week's dinner ducks, who are still living in the West Wing (punny, eh?) together. The other females have been combined with our home flock so I can track their laying ability and sort out who gets along and who does not. In this case, non-cooperation equals a short trip to the dinner plate. :D Josh is very fond of the new silver blue swedes, they are big, gorgeous gals. Pagan men, gotta love them. The scrawnier new khaki campbells can stay if they can lay, otherwise we'll fatten them up and schedule them for later this month.

The Cheekins are still getting used to us, likely a hard thing to do with dogs, duck flock and power tools. One of the gals laid a lovely brown egg yesterday late afternoon. We'll be renovating the last of the rabbit exercise pens into a coop to keep them safe. Josh and I will likely head over to the mainland to go to the main Feedstore for poultry items ours doesn't carry.

Recycling, The Tryst Inn Way

The old rabbit pen has been flipped upside down, netting attached on the top to keep the cheekins in our yard and set on the far side of the East Wing of Bunhalla. The old rabbit hutch is set in front of it against the fence, the bottom section now has a passway sniped out so the cheekins can get into the coop. I left the front facing out so I can use the front doors to feed, water and grab chickens. That little doorway cut in front on the bottom section can be used when we want the gals to forage in the yard. Especially important since one of the cheekins loves to hang out with the Home Flock.

Martha, predictably, is horrified to be living next to Cheekinheim (That's all alfrecht's fault, btw). We'd rescued her from a tiny wire cage inside a coop, so we'll nee to be especially generous with her. Cheekinheim is truly ugly, but we'll be improving that soon as the grunt work is done.

Once the Dinner Flock is taken care of next week, I'll get the rabbit rescue volunteers over to re-fence it and then I'll move her and the Bunboys back into the West Wing which should improve her attitude quite a bit. We've been asked to rescue another little girl bunny - a chinchilla and former rabbit show winner! We can likely do this next Thursday the 22nd after we fix the West Wing, anyone who wants to come by to volunteer - we hope to start about noon. The roofing project is scheduled for the 24th, same volunteers and same plea. :)

The boys managed to move the fence, though we need another section to complete. The guys are going to grab another section at Home Despot. In the meanwhile, the dogs are completely wiped out and so am I!