On Easter Monday, the first batch of chickens arrived!!  We ordered them through the Country Store in Fergus and they came from Hoover Hatchery.  These include five hundred broilers for meat and two hundred Gold Star for egg laying.  As soon as they have feathers, they will begin rotational grazing on our cover crops.  We got a mobile trailer home for them to live in.  It has been great.  For warmth, they are in just one end of the trailer house.  When they are ready to start grazing, their home will just move to the field.

They are a fun group of chickens.  Maddie, our Pomeranian, just loves to play with them.  When I kneel down to talk with them, they come running and turn their head to one side so they can really see me out of one eye and listen to what I am saying.  They have a radio going all the time so they are less likely to panic over other noises.  So far they have been listening to Oldies but last night they switched to classical!!  They really looked and listened when I made the switch.  They could tell it was a new sound.