I can't feel my arms. Actually, I can feel them and what I feel is a dull ache with an occasional jab of pain. I started the day with sore arms thanks to an awesome yoga class on Friday at Three Dog Yoga , but then it came time to move the movable chicken pen out of the swampy bottom pasture and onto drier land so that the meat birds have a nice, dry place to call home. Now, moving the movable chicken pen is not as easy as the name "movable chicken pen" implies. It's kind of like getting a massive airplane to fly...a lot has to happen to get it into the air. Thanks to Jeff's crafty engineering, careful 2x4 placement, and a whole lot of huffing, puffing, and pulling by us, we were able to move the pen and get the chickens nicely situated in their new abode.
These chickens are so healthy and strong, it's incredible. I have never seen chickens take to pasture like these ones have...they can swallow blades of grass whole and immediately start picking at the ground looking for tasty morsels. From this point on, the chickens will stay in the movable pen, which will be moved every day to guarantee that they always have fresh, clean grass. It really doesn't get any better than that.
Here are the chickens in their movable pen. You can see how much room they have to move around.
Here's the pen from a little bit farther away. The grass/pasture that the pen will move through is at least a foot tall and full of nutrients, bugs, and other natural goodies for the chickens to feast on. Real food makes the chickens taste AMAZING!
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