Featherwise's First Post!

In an attempt to catch everyone up on our progress at the farm, we decided to display a pictorial history of our farms journey. Of course this journey is no where near complete. In fact, sometimes I do not even feel sure we know where we are going but nonetheless we are having an awesome time trying to figure it all out! We hope you enjoy what you see and thanks for looking!


This is the future site of our chicken house which will soon be up and running! This structure will intermittently house 2000 hens. Of course the hens will be able to range during the day and only be closed in the house at night for protection from predators.





HEN HOUSE FOUNDATION:

Since we want the hen house to be elevated somewhat, we moved dirt in to build the pad. (At least something good did come out of the tornado, we used the dirt dug up from the new basement location)

BREAK TIME! Chad resting after hauling many loads to the hen house.

After much anticipation, we finally begin to see real progress! We put both the end structures up first, then continued placing the posts in the ground!


Chad driving the last ground post! Chad is definitely thankful this is the last post! This 95 degree afternoon is definitely not the ideal time for manual labor!


FRAMING: Everyone is working hard to get the frame up! The women were working too just behind the scenes as usual!

FINALLY!! With the backbone and sideboards attached, we are closer than ever to having this hen house complete! We can't wait!