We can hardly wait for Monday to get here - our order of 60 chicks are due to arrive at our Post Office first thing Monday morning!
Meanwhile, we are all chick ready. Check out the stages of building our chick corral in our garage:
We bought 12 bales of wheat straw to create a chick corral. After the chicks get their hard feathers and are moved up to stage two coops in the chicken yard, these hay bales will be used inside the chicken house.
We put down a generous layer of newspapers. This doubles with the hay and litter we use to ensure our tarp doesn't get too soiled.
Our litter material is ground corn cobs. It makes for an excellent and absorbing litter.
I'll be setting up the heat lamp tomorrow and we are all ready for our long and anticipated delivery of our second flock!
Stay tuned - I'll have photos of their arrival on Monday!
:)
hkj
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