Do all of us chicken mamas think our chickens are the best, smartest, and prettiest chickens ever born? Love must be blind because we really like our chickens a lot.
And our girls even have different colored eyes! Ours must be eggstra-special (okay, I'll stop).
But seriously, they have been out in their coop now for two weeks and everything has been going extremely well. No casualties, and they seem very happy.
Todd also finished the watering system in the chicken coop.
They can access their water outside under the coop.......
....or inside.
It holds a little over 2 and a half gallons of water, here is where we fill it. We hope to hook it up to our future rain barrel system one day.
It took them just a few days to learn how to drink from it. Several times a day, Todd would hold each one and put their beaks up to the chicken nipple, but only when we removed their plastic watering bowl did they finally figure it out.
Two days ago, they started going into their coop at nighttime on their own. Up until then, we had to pick up each one and put them in the coop. That was making me extremely frustrated because they would not go willingly and it would take the girls twenty minutes each night to get them in. It was mad chicken/children chaos every night at bedtime. The neighbor kids would even get in on it, too. Needless to say, we're VERY glad that instinct finally kicked in.
If only we could convince the kids to go to bed on their own........
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