Wow! has it been another week already? The chicks are fully feathered now and we will be moving them to a "tractor" pen tomorrow. I have little bands to put around the roosters' legs so we can keep them identified - some of them may become meals before they mature. They have consumed a total of 1 bag of feed in 4 weeks - I think the Cornish x Rocks had consumed more than 2 bags at 4 weeks - and of course they were much bigger.
I am a fan of Herrick Kimball from the Deliberate Agrarian . I have read every blog post at his web site, built a whizbang chicken plucker (see it here ), and own most of his books. So imagine my joy on Christmas morning when I unwrapped a Whizbang Wheel Hoe kit from Herrick's Planet Whizbang web site. The contents were just some metal pieces, bolts and washers:
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