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Raising Meat Birds Start To Finish

8/17/2013

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Chapter 4, Week 3-- Be a chicken!

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Happy Day!  We moved OUTSIDE! 

At three weeks old they had enough feathers to move outside to the open shed and much larger pen with dirt and weeds to enjoy!  The yard is 24ft x 24ft square. This gives them a lot of sun, soil, and weeds to enjoy.  

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Learning to be chickens they are dusting in the nice fresh dirt!  They are still unsure about having so much space.  So they are staying close to the shed.

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One little man found him a nice weedy place in the shade.  It will be so much nicer to take care of them.  They are using the 5 larger, trough like feeders and now have three of the larger waterers (2 -3 gallon and 1-5 gallon one).  We may add one more waterer as time goes on.  I also placed the four 1 gallon waterers around the yard so they don't get away from the shed and over heat before they learn how to get back and forth.


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