So in the last couple days I have been bouncing around a lot of Craigslist and emails, looking around for some new additions to our farm. I luckily found 8 true Ameraucana chicks we'll be picking up in just two days, and now after countless Marans for sale locally, I've settled on one person. Sooo in the end, we'll be getting 8 blue egg layers on Friday, and at the most 10 chocolate-egg layers on Sunday, with our very own Olive-egg layers due to hatch from Friday to Sunday. Soo much excitement!
In the mean time, I had plenty fun today. Still trying to work out all the problems with the goats and chickens and their responses to the pasture. The Wyandottes are finding places where they can escape the pasture (but why? It's 2 acres of free goodness!!) and the goats are finding ways into the hen's new nesting room and their original coop, causing all kinds of havoc! Goats. . Sooo much trouble. They eat anything too, for sure! They even try and eat our chickens!
To prove a point, just hours ago, in the black of night, I had to use some random twine to rope up both of the girls and pull them out of the chicken coop, whom they got stuck in and couldn't find a way out of. They were jumping on the nesting boxes, eating the chicken food, waking up and scaring the chickens, knocking over their waterer - Too much. Just too much. I tried luring them out with hay, and all they did was bay at me. I tried scaring/chasing them out, and they run back the other way. So finally I roped them up after about 15 minutes of trying to catch both of the girls, and I had help. We carried one goat and sort of dragged the other around, from the entrance of the coop to the opening of their pasture. THEN, we lured them back into their "dreaded and boring" barn of which they so insist on staying out of, and locked them in.
. . . Goats are a lot of work. After that, I finally put leg bands on the last couple Wyandottes while they were calmly in their sleep, and checked on all the chickens to make sure everyone was okay. . . And also made sure their nesting boxes weren't broken.
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