Doing Chicks

Busy week here at The Acre. It was chicken hatch week, and we now have a dozen new additions to our flock. It's officially spring when the chicks arrive. Cousin Eddie brought the Chirruns over to see the new brood, and a big Sunday breakfast was enjoyed by all.

With new chicks comes construction. Over the winter we had quite a bit of snow, and the egg ladies are not down with the white stuff, so they would stay in the coop until someone shoveled out a path for them to get under the covered porch. You'd think having two teenagers in the house, who shovels the path would be a no brainer, but we couldn't seem to find a shovel that fit either ones hand, so Big Man and Cupcake had path duty (we said "duty").
This got the wheels turning over the winter that perhaps we should make a covered run for the birds, eliminating the need to shovel in the future. Designs were formulated, lumber was purchased, and construction began.

The plan was to cover the run from the little coop to a covered shed structure, giving the birds a wide area to stretch out when they are cooped up. As we got underway, Cupcake hit on the idea to turn the shed into a large coop, since we were adding to the flock. So now the plan is, keep the little coop for the fresh hatch birds, put the older birds in the big coop, and have the covered run for introducing the new birds to the older birds. Hope to be done by next weekend, stay tuned.
There was one meal big man was proud of this week, brisket pot pie. During a rib smoke last week, he put a half brisket in the smoker and kept it for this meal. He chopped up about half of the brisket, and made the filling, then let it marry up for a day before baking. While he was making from scratch pie crust, he went ahead and baked another apple pie.

We ended the week with "Chicken Wing Sunday" which is still our tradition here at The Acre.
K&K