I thought this week was going by too easily!!! 

There we were, still trying to get the big house extended ready for the surge of 300 chicks.  But hubby's leg is playing up again, so he's only working at half strength at the moment.

I went out last night in the pouring rain, leaving the invalid on the sofa, to feed and water the chicks and shut the POL's up for the night.  Opened the door of the small shed to take out the water bell, and noticed a small pool of water on the floor making the shavings look yuck and thought I'd spilled some water as I was picking the bell up.  But no, when I came back with the fresh water, I looked up, and where hubby had nailed the new roof felt down, water was leaking in.  the roof was sodden!!!!!  so I went and got some new dry shavings and chucked loads of that down so the chicks had something dry to sit on and to help soak up the water.  thankfully it was only a small puddle!

Then I went outside to see what i could do.  If I'd left it, they could have been drowned by this morning!

So looking around the garden for inspiration, I remembered hubby had had the damp proof plastic stuff he'd got to put under the concrete in the workshop he'd built.  Its really thick stuff, so I cut off a 7 foot piece and where it had been sitting on the grass, it was full of water so I got covered whilst trying to chuck it on the shed roof.  Then I had to find the steps which were hiding behind some long bits of wood near the workshop.  Luckily the side security light was helping me to see what I was doing, so I got up the ladder but it took me ages to get the plastic spread out enough as it was so wide and the rain was pelting down.  Then the light went out, and I was in almost total darkness!!!!

Anyway, spread most of the plastic over the roof, then got down the ladder and went round the side and pulled it out straight, then went to find some long bits of heavy wood to hold it down in case the whole lot blew away!

By the time I'd finished feeding all the chicks and went back indoors, I was soaked!  Hubby came into the kitchen and said alright love???!!!!!

Anyway, they are fine this morning, but I've had to raise their infra red lamps again, as it gets really warm in the sheds.  The chicks are so big now, we must get them into the big house this weekend.  They are running out of room.  Wish we had a family near who you could ask for a bit of help now and then.  Would be nice.

I'll put some more photo's on here Friday.  You won't believe how big the chicks are now.