03/30/2026
Good Monday ☀️ morning folks☕️!
Pigy says Hi too.
Yesterday was somewhat productive, hubby helped me with getting the rest of the t-posts in and the bracing done. Finally decided where to put my gate, originally I was going to put it at the back, since it would be closer to the back door of the house, then decided I really needed it at the front closer to the driveway since that’s where the feed will come in from and where the feed barrels will be located. Then realized that there was an old tree stump right where I wanted a post to go 🤦♀️… hubby to the rescue 😊. He asked me, “Why not come off this corner post?” I told him that I didn’t know I could and he said it would be fine, it doesn’t have to be perfect 😂.
Today I plan to get the fence wire up and a temp gate until hubby does a little bit of welding for the gate hinges on one of the t-posts. Then I’ll work on getting the electric fence wire up n the outside of the fence.
Now folks, normally we wouldn’t go through the trouble of putting up a fenced in area for the chickens and turkeys. In the past we only had an 2-wire electric fence going around the coops, giving the chickens and turkeys complete free range of the property. But a few years ago, we had new folks move in to the area and disrupted the normal path of the coyotes, causing them to invade our property, killing off my entire chicken flock when my electric fence went out.
And now there’s neighbors who have free range dogs that are on the aggressive side, and the neighbor has been warned.
I’m sad that my poultry flocks won’t be able to be as free range as I would like, but I am thrilled to be able to create a safe space for them.
