Last night, we had some pretty strong winds – So, I went out to check the animals.
Sure enough, the 2 chicken tractors holding the 25 black Austral-orp hens had blown over, and the chickens were not in them.
Well, it was pretty hard to see solid black hens in the solid black night! I went back in the house and got Nathan. We went out with flashlights, and when we spotted a cluster of them huddling, we would lay down our flashlights and catch as many as we could and relocate them to a larger house for the night. This went on for about 30 minutes, but we think we got all but one – that one elusive chicken was no where to be found, so we called it a night ( since it was after 10:30PM).
I’m awaiting a report from Nathan this morning on the actual head count of chickens…