Moving Chickens

Last week, under cover of darkness, we moved all the tractor chickens to the big chicken house. We discovered that if you wait until they are sound asleep they can be caught and moved with little difficulty. Apparently that is something predators have know for centuries. Bad goose, Lady luck and her drake wandered into the pen vacated by the Mom hen with the 3 little turkeys (we gave the trio and their Mom to a friend where they will have a great home and be well taken care of...there are still 8 turkeys here and that is enough for now). We closed the gate on BG and his two buddies, so they are now on the east side of the grounds as well. That will make feeding and watering them much easier this winter. Turk and his troupe sleep inside still, but it often takes a bit of persuasion to make that happen.