Clean up!

Yesterday I had to clean up the pen and run from the heavy rain we had on Wednesday.

It was bad - really bad. The pen was the worst since the roof leaks a lot. There was only one dry spot in the whole place.

Sooooo........

I put on my rubber poop boots:

Scraped, raked and shoveled the entire pen of mud, poop, spilled food and lots of wet hay.

I had three big piles of this: (two from the pen and one from the run)

All together it filled the cart almost to the top:

Everything had to dry out for a while before I put down fresh hay:

Even filled their goodie ball with treats:

Frankly, having chickens IS a lot of work. If you ever decide to have them, just remember it will be up to you to keep them healthy and happy. Don't ever think that when you have chickens all you have to do is throw them some food everyday. They take a lot of care!

Lucy snuggles down in fresh, dry hay:

Are they worth all the trouble?  YES!