Today we released the prisoners! Their 50′ of plastic fencing that we had been using to control their movement was getting small, even for month-old birds. We took part of the area we fenced years ago to protect trees from deer and added rabbit fence to the bottom, in an effort to discourage the neighborhood cats, dogs, raccoon, foxes, etc., from helping themselves to a chicken or duck dinner. We will see if we have any luck with that. We are also protecting our garden from the birds, who would love to eat all of our fresh lettuce if they could. The birdies love the new pasture and immediately set about hunting down spiders, moths, worms, weeds, and any other tasty morsel that caught their eye. I’ll eventually get around to posting photos of the chicken shack and duck hut we made for them, but I’m feeling pretty successful in getting this one done. Time to make dinner and eat some of that lettuce ourselves!