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Building Chicken Pens

In the meantime of doing everything that I have been posting about lately, the most important is working on the chicken pens. We started them in March and just now finished them last week. Yes, it really has taken 2 months. They involved more detail then Dad realized, and with the chickens getting bigger and bigger we had to get them done ASAP. Chicks can only stay in a brooder for so long. The Storries were interested in raising their chickens on pasture this year like we do so they came over to help build the pens and for their time, we gave them a pen to use for themselves. Now that we have 5 pens out on the field, it looks awesome with all those chickens in them now!!!
 Our long line of pens


Ike was checking this one out
We finally were able to get our little laying hen chicks onto grass!

The broilers in their pens




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