Today's post is brought to you by the letter "T"

Hi All, Rich M suggested this post should be brought to you by the letter T for Tardy, which I certainly am. Once again I've been working for a friend's company so a lot of the progress you're going to see was done by Susan. In order to have a chicken Tractor (notice the "T") that is easier to move around than the previous one we built a new one on a much better frame. We also improved on it so the feeder was integated and would hold more food. For some of the structure we used some wood from a tree we cut down and took to a local saw mill. Below is a picture of Susan using an ancient Japanese technique for perserving wood called Shou Sugi Ban (we learned about it on one of our favorite TV shows Homestead Rescue.) These pieces became the roof.

And a couple of pictures of the finished product...

We had some Trespassers from next door show up for a while.

Susan finished up our automatic Turkey waterer as well. Here's the rain catchment system on the Turkey Taj mahal.

And the waterer inside...

While I've been away at work Susan also put up the Tile for the backsplash in the kitchen

And put in the flagstone on the mudroom porch (sorry, can't come up with a T for this one.)

And last, an update on the Turkeys. We have two babies that are growing up nicely. Here they are with their Teacher, a chicken.

One of the adult Turkey hens has been sitting on a clutch of eggs for a couple of weeks. We're not sure how many eggs but it looks like a bunch. This last week the other hen started "helping out." We're calling them mothers, not sure if they identify as mothers but they haven't displayed any displeasure so far.

That's it for now. The letter T worked out pretty well. I noticed the last post was brought to us by the letter S. That means U is next. I have no idea how I'm going to work that in. Brian