I've been sorely concerned about y'all what with those wildfires out there...Glad to hear from you and know you're OK.... I used to let our chickens out in the morning and they would run down in the orchard to the mulberry tree to pick up the berries...They looked SO funny from the back, running as fast as they could...I found out when you didn't want them to go too far to let them out late in the afternoon...they'll usually stay close to the coop... You don't need to keep ANY roosters if you aren't going to set eggs....Or unless you want to hear them crow. Not only do they crow early in the AM, I have heard them crow at every hour of the day and night...Listening to the young roosters practising crowing was a hoot...Their voices change just like teenage boys....Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Mon, 16 May 2011 17:29:02 -0500 Doug Crim <ddcrim@gmail.com> writes: > Yup, you can grow just any old tomato in those things... Good luck! > > Enjoying retirement? HA! Louise, we have been so busy with an > assortment > of projects I simply haven't had much time to write to the group. > For the > longest we were building a chicken coop... bought chicks and spent a > little > bit of time getting them into their teens. Bought seventeen chicks > figuring > we'd lose some of them. Nope.. we still have seventeen chickens and > they > are doing great... They are about half-grown now and we have begun > opening > the door to the coop and letting them roam. Usually I am up and > outside > first so I open the door for them and they are so eager to get out > that when > I open the door, they literally come flying out. They spend the > day > wandering the yard and when something scares them they head back to > the > coop. Each day they get a little more brave and wander further away > from > the coop. At the end of the day they return to the coop to be > locked in for > the night. Hopefully in a few more weeks they should start laying. > We'll > be wondering what to do with all the eggs then. We have at least > three > roosters and possibly four, so at some time we'll have to start > thinking > about chicken and dumplings. We're guessing one rooster will do. ____________________________________________________________ Groupon™ Official Site 1 ridiculously huge coupon a day. Get 50-90% off your city's best! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4dd2052a7bbf61f420m06duc