June 17

Beautiful weather today! Started out kinda cloudy and cool, but when the sun came out, it warmed up quickly. C is from Florida, so this was finally feeling warm to her. Me? Well, the Minnesotan in me thought it was getting up there towards hot sometimes... !

The first part of the morning was weeding some of the bulb onions. (As opposed to the green onions.) After that, we loaded the 2nd batch of meat chickens into crates and moved them to a space outside in the grass. They are very happy now;  lots of bugs and weeds to peck at. They arrived on May 19, and most of them now have all their "real" feathers that can withstand the elements. We've got a couple of days with no rain predicted, so this is a good time to get them outside and acclimated a little before they have to deal with bad weather. We also moved the "working girls" to a new section of grass. The recent rain and the fact that they've been in the same spot for a little over a week made their area pretty muddy.

After lunch there was a little more weeding, then, while I was mowing the expansive yard, C got the unpleasant task of "mucking" out the meat birds' room in the barn. Definitely the worst part about chickens. The room will be sprayed down with water, then disinfected in preparation for the baby turkeys that are coming next month! (I guess there's a disease that chickens can pass to turkeys--but not vice versa--that we need to make sure is not present in the room.)

I posted a couple more pictures on Facebook. Here's the link if needed:

Farm Pics