Kevin cleaned and sterilized the chicken coop. It has never looked so good!
He also added some red siding. It matches the barn! To the left of the door into the coop is a new nesting box. Kevin cleverly made it so that it has a sliding top. We can remove the top, reach in, and pick up any eggs there without going into the coop. It is amazing!
And here be chickens! We "went in" with a couple of guys from Kevin's work to purchase 27 chickens from a chicken farm more than an hour away. Since we are expecting the baby "any day", one of the other guys volunteered to go pick them up. He and his wife got 4 chickens, another family got 3, and we purchased 20.
They seem to be settling in very well!
When Kevin's coworker arrived with the chickens, his wife told us they were laying already. That surprised us...they are only 20 weeks old and we were not expecting them to be laying yet!
Sure enough, though, we had our first egg within hours of their arrival. So far we've gotten 7 eggs! That is quite impressive considering the chickens are traumatized by the move and by having to establish a new pecking order. So far, so good!
1 comment:
How are you dividing the eggs for the other families? Or are they going to their homes?
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