I worry a lot. lol
And this is a new one for me.
As any of you that read my blog know, we got 6 baby chicks. When we got them, we were told they would be ready (big/old enough) for a coop (or in this case, our barn) in 4-5 weeks. We have about 3 weeks to get the barn ready for them to go in there, which seems like a lot of time, but it's not....not really. There is a lot of work that needs to be done to the barn. It's desperately needs to be cleaned out (hasn't been used in years and has over time been used to shelter stray barn cats and other "creatures", I'm sure, since we've seen, what we can only come to the conclusion of, is rat droppings) on top of which since the "wild" animals have taken over the barn we need to make sure the part of the barn the chicks will be going into is secure from any predators, AND we need to make a outdoor chicken run so they can go outside on the nice days. None of this has really happened, and the chicks are getting big (we recently had to put a screen securely over their brooder because they have been trying to jump/fly out). We did try to get started on cleaning out the barn the day after we brought home the chicks, but we realized there was just so much junk in there that we need to borrow a friend, or family members, truck to haul the crap off to the dump.
I am worried my chicks won't have a place to go when they are ready...I worry we will rush getting it ready just so we can get them into the barn and overlook something thus leading to predators finding a way into the barn and killing all my chicks within their first week in the barn. I can't believe how attached I've grown to my chickens.
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