I'm sure there's a technical name for this. Other than "chicken mover thing."
Anyway, my mom bought it because she thought it was cool. We lived in a subdivision at the time, so it has just been sitting in our breakfast nook ever since my mom bought it. We never thought we'd actually be using it. But this past weekend, we did.
Our chickens have spent the past five weeks living in our building.
My dad built this pen for them. The giant screen on top is to keep other animals out. And to keep our chickens in. We knew that we couldn't keep the chicks in this pen much longer. They were already trying to fly out when we lifted the screen.
So my dad began work on our chicken coop. The frame of the coop had already been built. We just had to fix it up.
My dad built a door. Nothing is going to be getting in through this door. I can barely get in it.
We laid straw down Sunday and got ready to move our chicks in!
We were excited about moving the chicks, but we were also a bit concerned about how well our chicken mover thing was going to work.
My dad and my brother climbed into the chicken pen and started gathering up the chicks.
Once we had several in our chicken mover, we carried it out to the coop and let them go.
Our chicken mover thing worked very well for the larger chickens. However, we were a bit worried about putting the smaller chicks in there.
My dad put the chicken mover thing into the pen and gathered up one of the smaller chicks. My brother picked up another one, and they put the chicks into the mover. It took the chicks less than five seconds to escape. They were small enough to fit through the rungs of the mover!
We decided to use a blue crate to move the smaller chicks. My dad grabbed the crate and tried to herd the remaining chicks in. Which was rather difficult. The smaller chicks are much faster than the bigger ones.
We finally got all of our chickens moved into their new home. And they seem to be liking it.
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