Well we did it... put the girls outside last night for the first time, let them out first thing this morning... We put the heat lamp in there for comfort, but don't think it was necessary... Unlike last weekend when we had them running around in the back yard, this time they had a sort of "I'm not so sure about this" look about them as they first walked around their new run...
At this point it's all about the waiting - not planning on them to start laying until around late August, early September...
We did name them though (hope I get this right)...
Roll call:
Buff Orpingtons - Buffy (the vampire slayer) and Elvira
Rhode Island Reds - Margaret Thatcher and Pocahontas
Golden Sex-Linked - Mae West and Stella (the original chicken butt)..
Margaret seems to be the Uber-Girl...
I can think of some modifications or further coop challenges we still have... that coop/run is locked down central... we could house convicted felons in that thing... it would be nice to have a quick access method for tossing in food scraps and such... Also, a small covered area for the feed/water dishes would be nice... for now I'm just going to leave them inside the coop but would like to move them out of there...
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