Expansion Complete

We mentioned we were expanding our egg production this year. We hatched a dozen chicks to add to our flock, then we saw cute little black birds at Tractor Supply, they looked like penguins and we had to have some.

 So now we have 18 chicks to add to our flock, and only have a coop that holds a dozen birds at best. The pressure was on to finish the hen house under construction. We got out this weekend and worked from post breakfast cleanup to dinner cook.

We managed to get er done, Cupcake even had time to put two coats of stain on it. We still have a few finishing touches to put on the hen house, but it is move in ready.

We put an old barn style latch on the door. If we're going to have a hen house, it should be retro. Just our humble opinion. We still need to connect the run to the hen house, we hope to have that done by next weekend so we can transfer the chicks to the coop and the birds to the hen house.
We also had usual stuff going on. We got our first picking of herbs from Cupcake's window garden.

We smoked a chicken and a ham. It was Easter weekend after all.

Cupcake made her world famous corn pudding, and it lived up to the hype this year too.

We also had a visit by new birds this week. We dont know what kind of birds they are, but they sure are pretty, and we enjoy watching them come and go.

We ended the construction and weekend with "Chicken Wing Sunday" as is tradition.
K&K