Free ranging

Not quite what I meant when I said I wanted our chickens to be genuinely free ranging...

On a related note, we reached a milestone this week in butchering the 3 remaining meat chickens and getting them into the freezer. We started with 6. One had died as a runt, one didn't recover after getting mauled by 2 gangs of chickens (the older laying hens on one side and the other raised-from-chicks on the other), and the last died basically of a heart attack because he'd gotten too big to move.

I'm thoroughly enjoying being a chicken-keeper. They really are a low maintenance creature and the crowing at any time of the day makes me smile every time.