Spent the afternoon reinforcing the chicken coop. My lab keeps breaking into the coop to steal the scraps. So I had some extra wire cubes from making the rabbit hutch and we put some all along the bottom, there is no way Baylee is going to push the wire off now! The girls followed me all along the edge, they have scratched to the dirt no snow anymore. I can't wait until we thaw so we can move the coop. It needs it!
We still got an egg from each of them. When I went out to work on the coop in the afternoon, I check the nestbox (cause there was only an egg from the ee in the morning) and there was Gertrude, the cornish, sitting in the nest box. She looked up at me like I walked in on her on the toilet. I actually said, "Oh, I'm sorry" lol. Then I started working on the nest box and heard her clucking a bunch. Then she came out and started scratching, so I checked the nest box and there was her egg for the day.
They have been great. Maybe it is the extra food we are feeding or the scratch for the cold weather, but these girls lay eggs! The cornish has only missed 1 day and then laid two in the same day one time. The EE has missed a couple of days, but she lays pretty green eggs or even sometimes speckled green eggs, so I don't mind lol.
If I would have know how fun chickens were, I would have got some a long time ago! And it really is not a ton of work.
