Yes, I'm a vile person. I put Google ads up on this site. I've been watching my traffic carefully, and what do you know, a lot of people come here for chicken information. Since Google reads the site and places ads by contextual key words, this was another way to provide more links to people looking for information on everyone's favorite poultry.

And a way to make a little extra money - heh, heh.

Actually, I probably won't make chicken feed off of this little venture. Although if I make enough to some scratch for them, I'll be happy. We'll see where the experiment leads.

One of the events of the last couple of weeks was a stealth goat attack. My daughter went out to feed the herd, couldn't find several of them, and found them trapped inside the chicken coop. They'd gotten in somehow and couldn't figure a way to get out. So while they were there, they knocked down everything I had up out of the way of the birds, ate my egg production calendar for 2005 (except for a couple of small scraps and, I'm assuming, the little wire thingy that bound the pages together), and chewed up the main nest box.

Surveying the damage last weekend, I took out the remains of the nest box and did a little cleanup. The birds have started to nest in the upper rafters of the stall, so I need to put some chicken wire up to keep them down on their roosts where they belong. After I scrape the walls (I could tell that they'd been eating under the mulberry tree - ecccch).

If I go that far. I'm also thinking about building a separate coop with a removable lid and attached run outside of the barnyard. It's all percolating in my head, and I've got some time to think about it. While I clean up the damage.

(In case you don't get the gag that is this post's title, go here)