Thank you
@Acre4Me!
@NewBoots if you think they are laying you can lockthem in the coop for a few days till they lay in the boxes.
I can't really. the original plan was 8 hens but due to circumstances beyond my control (chicken math) we have 10 and locking them in would certainly get the sussex hurt.
I've not had too much of a problem with the pullets learning to use the nest boxes @NewBoots. After I put them in with the hens there were a few eggs laid in the dirt, but after a few "sessions" of putting the pullets in the nest box and sitting with them for a few minutes they lay in there consistently now.
You grabbed them and stuck them in a nest box? That I think I can do. How many times did it take?
How do you use your comfrey? I feed it to my hens and my rabbits!
I rather not block off that area, it's a safe zone for the sussex. And I didn't look up chickens and comfrey but according to a couple of sites I looked up, over time, rabbits can develop liver issues. We did give it to the rabbits in the grow-out pens since time was not their friend, and they liked it. Mostly I was growing it for the pollinators.
The rooster is still hanging out with me at dinner because the girls are mean. The new girls are rotten to him and I can hardly wait for him to put them in their place.
Poor boy, I'm sure it'll change once he grows into his roosterness.
It was a good day, we got free flu shots then hit the road to the nursery. I got garlic, shallots, kale cabbage, broccoli, and collards. The green stuff is all planted and watered in, I'll plant the garlic and shallots tomorrow. Canceled the feed store run, both DP and I drank a gallon of coffee and the coffee did what it do and so we didn't want to stop again on the way home.
Got 4 quarts and 3 pints of sauce canned last night so that makes about 100 pounds of tomatoes processed into sauce, and I just picked a pound or two of yellow plum tomatoes. I think those will be made into fresh salsa, I eat the stuff by the gallon.
7 of our 10 pullets gave us eggs today. Koraline laid so late yesterday I wasn't surprised she took today off, still waiting on the sussex. I chickened out and didn't crawl under the coop, I just walked the edge and peered under. Of course there were 10 pullets staring back at me in case I was handing out treats. I didn't see any place they could be laying in secret. I'll ask the guy that built the coop and run to add a door under the coop, that'll make retrieval easier in case I do really need to get under there.
