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Kaden’s chickens are doing well. He has learned to go out an open the door for them to access the run, and close it when they are all in at night. I hope we can make sure that happens throughout the year. I had to put them up last night, so I am trying the light trick. I put a regular 60 watt light in the top of the coop – replacing the brooding lamp. It is on a timer that comes on around 7:30 PM and goes off around 9PM.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, due to the impatient of my family – i helped them out of the coop. This morning, we just opened the door and let them figure it out. When we went out around noon, there were 2 in the run and the rest trying to figure out if those two were going to die…<\/p>\n

As I walked in the run to check the water and feed, another decided to fly out of the coop to meet me. Kaden told it to use the ladder next time.<\/p>\n

I removed the feed from the inside of the coop, and decided one feeder would be enough for now. If I see that this is a problem I can add the feeder that was inside the coop to the run. For now, it is simply stored under the nesting boxes outside. I figure that will assist them in learning how to get out of the coop – or starve.<\/p>\n

I planted sweet corn, green beans, beets, and some carrots yesterday after I mowed. I need to get my dang potatoes in the ground. I plan on getting plants and all by next weekend to finish out the planting. I think the cold snap and snow we had last fir day was the last one. I hope. LOL<\/p>\n

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Kaden’s chickens are doing well. He has learned to go out an open the door for them to access the run, and close it when they are all in at night. I hope we can make sure that happens throughout the year. I had to put them up last night, so I am trying the light trick. I put a regular 60 watt light in the top of the coop – replacing the brooding lamp. It is on a timer that comes on around 7:30 PM and goes off around 9PM. Yesterday, due to the impatient of my family – i helped them out of the coop. This morning, we just opened the door and let them figure it out. When we went out around noon, there were 2 in the run and the rest trying to figure out if those two were going to die… As I walked in the run to check the water and feed, another decided to fly out of the coop to meet me. Kaden told it to use the ladder next time. I removed the feed from the inside of the coop, and decided one feeder would be enough for now. If I see that this is a problem I can add the feeder that was inside the coop to the run. For now, it is simply stored under the nesting boxes outside. I figure that will assist them in learning how to get out of the coop – or starve. I planted sweet corn, green beans, beets, and some carrots yesterday after I mowed. I need to get my dang potatoes in the ground. I plan on getting plants and all by next weekend to finish out the planting. I think the cold snap and snow we had last fir day was the last one. I hope. LOL  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mylife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1829,"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions\/1829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}