Water and Chicks

Baby chicks have arrived (again)!  Our 36 Cornish Roasters arrived early this morning along with F3’s order.  We got the call at 5:11am and drug ourselves to the post office.  We ordered enough to score a “double-wide” box this time!  As usual they tumbled out of their shipping box and went right to work eating and drinking like little fiends.

I also realized I had forgotten to mention that this past weekend we went to a bakery that was selling off food grade barrels (from storing artificial sweetener) for rain water catchement.  It was a steal compared to the $80 or so most folks charge for olive barrels that have been turned in to rain water catchement so we stocked up and got a couple for F3 as well.

We are excited to work on this project since it will (hopefully) alleviate the need for hauling quite as much water up and down the hill, especially now that the pink flock is up there by the goats.  The goal is to catch the water in large enough quantities and then truck it up the hill to keep us going for as long as possible.  We are only starting with a few while we work out the system.  I’m hoping to be able to build a gutter system on the goat barn so we can collect water up there as well.