The chickens have only been here a week but they are growing so fast.  I have never seen such an interactive group of chickens.  When I kneel down to talk with them, they come running, gather around, climb all over me, and listen!!  When we open the door, they come running to look out.  They are chomping at the bit to graze on our cover crops.  We are planting clover and cereal grain for them so they should be out grazing in a couple of weeks.  The mobile home trailer we got for them is ideal.  We need two more.  If you know of someone who has a trailer they don't want or an old school bus, let me know.  The next batch of chickens is coming in a few weeks so we need another home for them.

As soon as the brooders are removed from the trailer, we will put roosts up for them.  They will graze in the field by day and roost safely in the trailer at night.  As they eat up a grazing area, their pen will move to the next section of cover crop.  The goal is for the land to help the chickens and for the chickens to help the land.  When all things are in such harmony of working together, it is called permaculture.