It's been a few days since I had time to post. The Holidays you know.
Had a lovely Christmas, with family, both the human kind and the animal kind, though sometimes that line of demarcation gets a little blurry.
The girls continue to entertain and have grown very fond of sitting on Cal's knees and eating raisins. It is so cute. Barbara remains the demanding one, and has trouble waiting her turn.
Since it has gotten colder, they are not as eager to get out of the coop early, and we get to sleep until 0800. Correction..I get to sleep a bit later as I am the one who invariably hears them. The trade off is I get up and let them out, Cal cleans the coop. I believe I got the better deal on that one.
Meanwhile, the yard remains a mess, but the rain has let up for the past few days.
Plans for the extended chicken yard continue with all materials gathered. Perhaps by next Spring we will have our lawn back.
Found a neat idea for making a dust bath area as the chicken yard is concrete. You get a big enough tub/container to hold at least 6 inches of diatomaecous earth and two live chickens. It will be under the roof of the yard so will stay dry. Those chicken websites are fantastic places to get ideas.
We're also going to install an automatic waterer. We're going hi-tech here.
We still spend time outside with them every day, and when they want us, they peck at the sliding glass door to see us. When we go out, they both tell us about what has happened since we last were out there. Very chatty little things.
As per the title of this blog, Barbara continues to amaze us with her egg laying prowess. One egg a day, every day. Mabel, remains very cute and sweet.
Had a long day, heading for bed. Me that is, not the chickens, they went to bed at 4:45pm. Until we blog again, Adios.
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