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it's 84* here in the loft but that's INSIDE a well insulated house, in the shade of oak trees .... a lot warmer out on the deck, south side of house
coop may be the coolest place here, also slightly insulated, but has the taller crate east and south of it, so doesn't get any sun until noon, then it's filtered shade really, with the big oak tree hanging over, the tall house to the south and west of it, and a cool draft coming out of the basement ramp, dug 4 feet into the ground
DGD Hailey just LOVED the pink egg ... she had fun playing with chickens all over the yard, throwing whole wheat bread crusts and sunflower seeds for them ... but when came time to go eat, we could find only FIVE hens and the rooster ... Anitra was missing
after considerable searching, we decided the tummy rumblings were getting too loud, so we went off to stuff ourselves with Mexican at Puerta Vallarta here in town
got back a bit ago .... to find Anitra hanging out right outside the run, AND apparently another "first time" egg in a nest box that hadn't been used before --- stuffed-green-olives olive color, and considerably more pointed at the ends than any other egg that had shown up so far
ok -- so I'm taking the plastic recycle bin out of the run ... no one has used it to lay an egg --- or --- maybe I'll put another one on top of it, dump the glass recycling that's occupying it, into the third bin we have which is only half full -- I have a bunch more paper to run through the shredder now anyway
I found an egg that was cracked and smushed like it was soft shell. Then I went back later to collect the eggs and one of them was missing. found remains of yoke in the nest box.
