Chickens and Heroes

Well here are the beasts at three weeks. You can see the exponential growth curve starting to be realized now. I bet they doubled in weight this week. Getting pretty ugly too. They are about 75% into a set of new feathers. I snapped a couple photos of my feeder I built too. The doors are down to the feed troughs, and you can see the string (baling twine baby) that I use to simultaneously raise and lower the doors so I don't actually have to crawl in the pen and do it before work. Just swivel the 2x2 door jams out of the way (so they can't sneak a midnight snack on me) and pull the string up. Presto, feeding frenzy. Actually had one die in the fray last week. I think his buddies broke his leg and trampled him in a effort to get his share of the breakfast. They are getting pretty durable and big now, so I don' think I will lose many more. They are sort of fragile when they are really small.

What else is new around here other than stupid chickens? Well I just got a bonus at work - that made my day. A little seed money for the tractor fund (the homemade plow had its day, but real prairie blizzards and 4 foot drifts call for something with hydraulics) Last weekend I went on a "Heroes" binge big time. I had never heard of the show before, but I downloaded it for my brother inlaw (serving his country in the big sandy as we speak). Any way, it turns out, its a phenomenal show, and horribly addicting. Makes 24 look like child's play as far as the "cant' wait for the next episode" phenomena. Good thing I only had the first 11 episodes, cuz Amanda and I watched them all. I cued up 12 to 18. Have to wait till summer for the season to be over to get them all.

JZ