Chicks out for a walk
Posted By Elaine on March 18, 2009
This morning the boys and I got up early to go to the Ben Roy Science Show. It was very cool. We saw the Tesla Coil, a Hydrogen flair, a glow stick made and a ping pong ball shoot through a soda can. The boys love science and the cool things you can do. We also saw Mr. Roy blow up a balloon and then pour liquid nitrogen over top and we were able to watch it shrivel up into a frozen flat blob. When he took it out we watch it re-inflate right before our eyes. Very cool how small an oxygen atom can move so slowly that you think it is not there….until it warms up. I guess I had some fun today too.
When we got home today it was warm enough to let the chickens outside in their pen. I let them outside yesterday in the pen that Julie and I made but they were able to slip through the 2″chicken wire that made up half the pen. So today when we got home from the show I went looking in the barn to see what I could use instead.
new and improved pen
Voila! I had a brand new roll of garden netting.
Chicks sunbathing
Yea! So I took down the old and put up the new and added a few more posts to give them more area. It was much more relaxing for me to watch them knowing they were not going to go “walkabout”. Yesterday was quite the calamity with us chasing chickens back into the pen and all around the yard. Very stressful for the chicks and for me.
Bullet watching over his charges
Bullet the Border Collie was more than happy to lend a hand in keeping them where they should be. Always on guard to keep things where they need to be!
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