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Now that's more like it. Three clean birds drying in the sun. I'll keep 'em in the tractor until I'm ready to carry them to their clean coop tonight.

Hey - how do you wash their faces? They have clean bodies, but their heads, combs, earlobes and wattles are still dirty.
 
Was just outside. Loving how pretty my GLW is becoming! Never really realized she's so preeeety.

And here's the twins Thelma and Louise; Thelma is more tan and Louise is more white. They're getting so big!


And here's Lucy and Laya destroying a planter
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But they are so cute while they do it!
 
If you can afford/manage it I personally use a large Rubbermaid container with a puppy pee pad on the bottom with pine shavings covering it. (easy clean up) If you get one with high sides and long enough then you can clamp the heat light on one side and that would leave the other end with no heat so they can go back and forth.


I use a Rubbermaid bin and a microphone boom stand to attach the light to it worked great and you could change the levels at any time
 
Well production is down to about 5 per day in the coop. There may be a couple of hens laying in the yard somewhere but it's way too big for me to search thoroughly and there is a very large bramble patch (blackberry) that I let go wild so the wild birds/rabbits have a place that one of my gals loves to into.
No matter, since I can't eat 3 doz eggs/week I'm OK with the production. For now. Nah, it's ok, more like pets/pests for my enjoyment and entertainment.

To day I found out I have Mexican RIR. I wouldn't have believed it but I saw it with my own eyes.
They will do the "Mexican Hat Dance" for a bite of an old tortilla. They jump up to take a bite and so far they are refraining from biting me! Now, I no longer have to throw away my old tortillas.
(I love tacos and burritos and keep them on hand all the time because I make up taco/burrito meat like most people make popcorn, at the drop of a hat)
Jake is also an enthusiastic partner in my late evening burrito pig-out.

I think I might be spoiling them girls.
 
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