Planing & Tweaks

Yesterday we got the hardware to suspend the ladder we've hung vertical for a roost. We also got hook & eye for the top door there is not a way to close just the top of the half door set up we have on the coop. We got chain also to hang the ladder with and secure the door outside when it's open from blowing shut possibly hurting a chicken. I've been using a stump of wood from the maple tree we took down a couple years ago. Limbs from that we saved have come in handy for a number of uses. I cleaned the nest boxes and the coop floor. On thing about the vinyl flooring is that it's slick trying to think of something with more traction. So we are doing some tweaking to the set up. 

Over breakfast we talked about how and where to put the brooder chicks the loft area could be used for that hubby said I assume he has a design in mind. I like to see it drawn out on paper for a better idea of what he is thinking. We also discussed chicken breed choices and how the goals of the flock work in with what we actually have which birds to cull and general flock management finally getting on the same page might help with some of these ideas. I'm learning as I go. [I'll read some thing or see a u-tube video and think wow that's a great idea I need to try that! Just because some thing works for one person does not always mean it will work here for us in this situation. Light bulb moment.]

I brought home scraps from the bday dinner for the chickens to eat. Got four eggs none of them from the Easter eggers. So that means one of the other hens has started laying again I'm excited about that. I can't believe how long it's taking the Morans chicks we bought last fall at 4-6 weeks old to mature at 6 mo. no eggs from them yet of the six I bought only two turn out to be hens. 

Today's temp. range 31*-38* the neighbors dogs were up before the chickens today.