Now we have a rooster!

Yes, we somehow found ourselves the new owners of a rooster yesterday. How did we end up with a
rooster, you ask? There has been increased activity of people coming to borrow our sat phone and
someone yesterday paid for their sat phone call with a rooster! Old world meets new world. ha. They
gave us the bird in a bag and then we had to figure out what we were going to do with it.
Thankfully, I had a roll of chicken wire here in the house so Koleman and I went out and wrapped
some around the water tank stand and, we had ourselves a little chicken pen. We then let the rooster
out of the bag inside the pen and he was OK, but Blackie just couldn't seem to stay away from that
pen and then the bird would hop out. Thankfully, he is somewhat tame and not too hard to catch when
he gets out. Last night we did fully enclose his pen so that he cannot get out of there. We really
know nothing about raising chickens (I am considering the fact that our two chicks are still alive a
flat-out miracle!) so I was grilling Laureano on what would be the best thing to do for our rooster.
He said that you keep them penned up for 3 weeks, then you can let him roam and he will come back to
his pen at dusk to roost. If you let him wander too early on, he might not come back to roost in the
evening. Alright, we will give that a go. So now we have one dog, two cats, and three chickens!

-Brad