Fencing

When I've read about people living off the land, they always seem to be building fence or mending fence or moving fence.  I'm beginning to understand.

We ran new fence for the chicken pen.  Our chicken pen was too small for so many chickens, and we'd like to enlarge our orchard, so we finally got around to moving the fence.  We've been planning on it all season so we just let the weeds grow, and boy did they grow. 

You can clearly see the line of the old fence after we moved it.  The chickens swarmed into the weeds and are happily doing them in as fast as they can.

With the chicken pen up against the pasture, we have the option of making an opening and letting the chickens into the pasture.  There can be a lot of bugs over there, the chickens' very favorite thing, and very healthy for them.  When the little chicks get bigger, we'll probably do that.  Maybe they'll eat some of the flies!