Flooded chickens

We had a bit of rain these few days. 110ish mm over the last 14 days, 25 of which decided to check in on us yesterday. So our run got flooded.

Not having the space for a truck load of woodchips, nor the time to spare, I got a couple of 23kg bales of sawdust. BTW .6USD pr kg for sawdust, what’s wrong with the world?

The chickens were quite perplexed as to the bale when it arrived, and definitely not sold on it either when I had spread it out, pic in comments. I’m going to see how it works before spreading another one.

Usually I don’t have to pump water from this area before November, but I guess that life ain’t fair and the world is mean, so we started the pump this morning. Next 5 months (we’ll I guess it’ll be 6 months if luck be) we’ll be pumping about 26m^3 from this area daily.

There’s a Danish children’s song that starts with something like “The farmer is always busy on his farm” and then lists the chores. I wonder why I that was stuck in my head as I wandered about the hardware store looking for bedding material.

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