It’s been a good couple of weeks with the chickens, and we’re learning a lot. Like how annoying it is that our chickens suddenly aren’t laying eggs in the coop anymore, and now it’s like an egg hunt every day trying to find them! I finally had to buy a couple dozen eggs from the farm we belong to, and about an hour later (of course!), we found a bunch of our missing chicken eggs in a makeshift nest behind our house! We’ve been given a couple of strategies to deal with this situation, so hopefully things will return to normal and they’ll lay in the coop again soon. Our chicks are growing by leaps and bounds, they’ve got lots of feathers now and are developing long necks and tails. They’re still living in our office/spare room, but we moved them from the cardboard box to a borrowed feed trough which allows a little more room for them to do whatever they do in there. They still have a heat lamp on them, but we’ll probably stop using it within the next few weeks. Once they have enough feathers and the air temperature is warm enough, no cool drafts, they’ll be fine. When they’re bigger, they’ll start to live outside in the coop with the adult hens.
Hammering in the cleats on the entry ramp for the new coop
Declan loves soccer!
I got my nails done last weekend, and Declan was fascinated by the transformation on my hands and feet, as well as the array of colors to choose from in my nail polish collection. Here he is with Livi in our backyard, giving themselves impromptu “manicures.”
Quinny playing cashier with Gemma and Papa, alternately giving Papa money, then taking it right back.
Quinn had her first ride on the tricycle this week, and now we can’t keep her off of it! She can’t reach the pedals yet, her feet just rest on the footstand, but every day when we go outside, she makes a beeline for the tricycle, climbs on, and waits for a push.
