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(Pens Complete) - September, 2000

All the barn pens are now complete. When we can, we'll be plumbing each pen with plastic pipe feeding automatic waterers. For now we're still carrying water in 5 gallon buckets in a trailer behind our lawn tractor and using several 1 gallon plastic waterers in most pens. - September 4, 2000.
	Here's the way the inside of the barn looks now, Sept 4, 2000. The pens are done on both sides. All the chicken wire is up, and the roosts and nest boxes done and installed in all the opens. We've moved most of the breeder cages out of the old barn and placed them in the center aisle. We plan to take in a 10ft x 20ft section of the old barn and build a larger coop for our Barred Plymouth Rock laying flock. The existing coop is too small for all 140 of them, so some of them are in a new barn pen with no cockerels for company.
We've decided to use the first pen on the left side as a growing area for young birds. We've put three of the cage units in there with heat lamps and will house started birds in there until they're old enough to introduce them to the appropriate community pen.	This ends the Barn Construction photos. For Now...

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