good morning girls today is it gonna be a chicken house cleaning up and today
move back back 13 yeah I gotta clean this mess up get it ready for the winter
uh I I put out some styrofoam up there and these chickens have been slowly
pecking at it and tearing it apart I think they finally got to the point
where they can't reach anymore so I'm gonna trim that up clean it all up in
here or put new shavings and get my heater in here ready for the winter
supposed to be a really bad winner I got a tarp put up down here so the
rain doesn't come in here you know blow in here hard and this is north well
actually that's about north there but I'm gonna put a tarp up here too just to
give them a area to get out of the wind man clean all these oh hey girls clean
all these chicken boxes out and this box is washing drying new Hey what yeah new
hey and let's see oh yeah I got 20 bags 20 bags of pine bark mulch and since
this is supposed to be a very very wet polar winter this holds water here
and I'm gonna throw all that mulch out here try to give them some somewhere to
dry to stand they can catch diseases one of them's called bumblefoot if they stay
in wet too much short I ain't wearing pants still absolutely hefty all right
girls let's get busy back to work everybody layin eggs
thanks for the hill breezy you did good all right I sure hated using that mini
fender washers but uh they're kind of expensive but I don't want this to blow
off and this stuff has the tendency to get a little brittle as it as it gets it
older and exposed to Sun so there we have the north side protected from the
wind okay on to the next one that's probably gonna be the worst part which
is uh getting up in the hen house here and
shoveling out crack out witty old crap slick and put fresh crap in there
thank you scared of you think you'll be real pretty here these are some nasty
creatures here scraping begin my favorite part of the job
I need your hands for this
okay come on girls I need you to hurry up in there got work to do yeah go ahead
I do good here good that's pretty damn cool right there you are one mean mean
little bird I tell you what how about you Rocky
you gotta come after me too huh okay take a short break and get back at it
well I decided to redo their perches they're all kind of flimsy and flopping
around
and they actually use them pretty good bit
okay next getting that mulch in there
there you go you like it that's one of my youngest
ones there I've got see what all about for for the
young ones I think they're let's see August they were six months old the
other girls are all getting a little long in the tooth
alright let me put some things away and I'm gonna get after this mulch all right
that's what that looks like and now I gotta get probably 20 or 30 more bags of
this so I can do out here cuz I'll tell you last year I tried bales of hay and
we'll not got trampled down I went out and raked up all that pine straw there
and a couple other trees and put it in here and I'm spring came it was a mess
to get out of here so this mulch got to do a much better
job getting them up out of the mud thanks for watching the tomatoes have
been very good to me this year but I'm afraid if I don't gather them all about
losing's and frost man I still got squash growing
I still got tons of squash and zucchini right there
I have to bring that the Bev get her to make that baked zucchini again that was
pretty good all righty this is the end of the garden
I'm gonna pick everything and everything I can eat I'm going to and everything
that the chickens will eat I'll give to them see you next year you've been good