The girls moved to their big girl coop last week and the girls are loving the difference.
We added their nesting boxes and some dried weeds/grass clippings we have been saving for a month or so. It made me realize how much "waste" cutting the lawn and pulling weeds produces. However I did enjoy the free bedding for the girls.
They apparently enjoyed it too.
We also upgraded their waterer and feeder to big girl sized self filling contraptions. This way we only have to fill them once every couple of days and they have access to much more without having to wait on us to feed them every morning.
I did rig up a terribly shoddy run for them but they keep escaping.
So our next project will be to clip their wings so they can still get some outside time without requiring me to chase them into the neighbors yard (across the garden, over the fence and onto the neighbor's deck to be exact).
Marco has been on a research cruise for the last week so his next project when he gets home is setting up a real run- with a top- for the girls. Until then their "outside" time will be limited and only while I am out there with them. But they are all laying now and giving us three to four eggs a day so something must be working.
Anyone else chasing chickens lately? In the dark? While your flashlight dies? In your pajamas??
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