Chicken Dance

Over the last week we have seen chickens come and go and move to and fro.

Home on the Range/ Farm

When we arrived here and parked the trailer between the Zendo and the new building foundation. There were chickens right beside us, fenced in with a three foot high square wire fence on a semi flat field this side of the creek. There was another chicken run set up south west of us across the creek.

Meditation Zendo at sunrise

Broken Vertical Wire

I have since learned, from Leon of coarse, that there are two designs used when making the square wire fencing. One has continuous lengths of wire running horizontal and the other has vertical lengths that allow the fence to stand on it's own without bowing or bending in the middle. The later is the one that Leon prefers. Also it doesn't use as many posts to keep it upright as the horizontal.

Solid Vertical and Horizontal  Wire

The chickens are moved so the field is cleaned of unwanted seeds and grasses. The chicken droppings are good fertilizer.

A week ago the oldest flock was sold. The fencing was removed. Posts pulled from the ground and the square wire rolled into sizable bails.

The bails were hauled over to a field south of the corn field. This field already had three lines fenced so only one had to have the post put in and wire attached. This would be the home of the remaining flock from across the creek.

Last night after dark with all the chickens roosted in their coop. Leon attached his two wheeled tractor to pull the coop with the rest of us pushing it. We moved the thirty or so chickens up the hill, past the trailer, down the road past the corn to the next field. This all happened in pitch black conditions, not even the moon to guide us. So here we were Leon and Randal with their head lamps shining and Lorraine with a smaller flashlight showing the way. The journey took us about fifteen minutes.

This morning it was business as usual when the chickens exited the coup in their new home. Let the chicken dance continue.