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Due to our unplanned relocation, my three pet ladies need a new home. They are a Gold Star, a Barred Rock and a Black Australorp. Great girls, but I can't take them with me back to Canada!

At first, I thought Chocolate, a (suspected) Black Australorp might be getting broody, but her behavior doesn't seem to match. She's my lowest producer, laying around 4 a week. Her coop mate Pepper, BR, lays 5-6 a week and her other buddy Cinnamon, Red Comet, lays 7/week, often with a double...

Here she is at 3 days: She's the one on the left. The top of her head was solid black. And, today, at around 17 weeks: The farm supply store sold her as a sex link, but she has just gone through her pullet moult and is still totally black all over. She's bigger than her red sex link...

My girls have free run of my back yard for 6+ hours a day. I need to fertilize my 10-odd fruit trees for the first time since we got the chickens. I normally apply the slo-release fertilizer around the base of the trees and water it in, but it usually takes while for the granules to disappear...

My three girls are running amok! A 20 wk old BR and 2 16 wk old sex links, they find at least one new way to cause trouble every day. So far they've discovered that they can jump up to sit on the fence, decided that inside my house is worth braving the German Shepherd Dog at the threshold...

I've also posted this content under the heading "Can you make suggestions on how to finish our Chicken Run?" so if it feels familiar, I apologize. I did wind up asking questions about raising the girls as well, so thought it would get more response to those questions here. Here's our...

Here's our "Ghetto Run" as it stands today: As we're in Central Florida, I don't think an enclosed house is necessary, as overall we need to worry about keeping them cool for 300+ days a year rather than giving them a place to keep warm for the 5-6 nights a year we get temperatures...

And what foods should be avoided? So far I've confirmed that orange is yucky... heads shaken in disgust just looking at an opened segment of tangerine.

I guess I'm one of those people who makes the people in the know sigh a little bit. We are the proud new owners of three little girls... Pepper is a Barred Rock, I'm guessing she's about 4+ weeks old. And: Chocolate, a Black Star, and Cinnamon, a Red Star. We brought them home from the feed...