RedwoodCoastChick
Free Ranging
Catch-up time!
We've been having such wet, stormy weather - wind, hail, thunder & lightning, but mostly just rain, rain, rain. (6.68" total from this storm system.) I was ducking out during lighter showers to coop-clean, top off water & feed and collect eggs; no one wanted to come out & play or beg for treats. The girls were hiding out in their covered run and under the coop most of the daylight hours, venturing outside briefly whenever it let up a bit.
Suddenly the corner nest box is the ONLY acceptable one! Edna the Egger crowded in to lay with Martha the Whiting's True Blue, to Martha's grumpy displeasure, while the perfectly lovely, fluffy center box was unused by anyone - just its lowly fake egg in there.
Despite the cold & wet, the 8 girls gave me 5 eggs Sunday, 5 eggs Monday, 6 on Tuesday but today, the first dry, sunny warmish day in ages, only 3 eggs; too busy enjoying the nice weather to get serious and lay, ladies?
We've been having such wet, stormy weather - wind, hail, thunder & lightning, but mostly just rain, rain, rain. (6.68" total from this storm system.) I was ducking out during lighter showers to coop-clean, top off water & feed and collect eggs; no one wanted to come out & play or beg for treats. The girls were hiding out in their covered run and under the coop most of the daylight hours, venturing outside briefly whenever it let up a bit.
Suddenly the corner nest box is the ONLY acceptable one! Edna the Egger crowded in to lay with Martha the Whiting's True Blue, to Martha's grumpy displeasure, while the perfectly lovely, fluffy center box was unused by anyone - just its lowly fake egg in there.
Despite the cold & wet, the 8 girls gave me 5 eggs Sunday, 5 eggs Monday, 6 on Tuesday but today, the first dry, sunny warmish day in ages, only 3 eggs; too busy enjoying the nice weather to get serious and lay, ladies?
