We are so excited the run is finally up! The chickens are even more so because they've been literally cooped up. This is a good thing though for the first couple of days so they learn where they are supposed to sleep and lay their eggs.
Speaking of eggs, we've been enjoying eating them! We hard boiled the soft-shelled eggs and fried the rest. We are getting on average 7-8 eggs a day. No more soft-shelled; that was mainly due to the stress of relocating them to our property. Now they are very happy chickens, especially now that they can get out of the coop during the day and eat fresh greens and bugs.
Oh, and as an update, we caught the chicken who escaped. We also learned why she was so desperate to get out of the coop. She is at the bottom of the pecking order and the others are quite hostile towards her. Through our reading and research on chickens, we've come to learn this is quite normal and even necessary for a group of chickens without a rooster to rank themselves in a pecking order. We are city-folk learning all of this as we go :). Enjoy the pics below: the run and cooking our eggs:
Speaking of eggs, we've been enjoying eating them! We hard boiled the soft-shelled eggs and fried the rest. We are getting on average 7-8 eggs a day. No more soft-shelled; that was mainly due to the stress of relocating them to our property. Now they are very happy chickens, especially now that they can get out of the coop during the day and eat fresh greens and bugs.
Oh, and as an update, we caught the chicken who escaped. We also learned why she was so desperate to get out of the coop. She is at the bottom of the pecking order and the others are quite hostile towards her. Through our reading and research on chickens, we've come to learn this is quite normal and even necessary for a group of chickens without a rooster to rank themselves in a pecking order. We are city-folk learning all of this as we go :). Enjoy the pics below: the run and cooking our eggs:
