Saturday, December 7, 2013

Still in the Freeze

It is still chilly here in Colorado and the chickens spent another night in the garage.  Here's a view of the coop through the kitchen window.
We got up very early this morning to take the chickens from the garage to the coop in time for early morning egg laying (Fitz!).  At 6:28 yesterday morning, we returned the birds to the coop and Fitz walked straight up the ramp and into the nesting box.  This morning we arrived in the garage about 6:31 (it IS Saturday!) for the transfer back to Red Door Coop.  Well, we were three minutes too late.  Fitz laid her egg in the garage.  Good size!
Want to see the little storm shelter constructed by none other than Papa Hen?  It's a three wall structure built from squares of straw.  In this photo the birds stepped out of the shelter because I was spreading some scratch in the straw for them.
I call this next picture "Bruiser Face."
Papa Hen is working on the coop right now.  You will soon get to see the additional insulation and special lights we got for a little extra warmth on the coop.

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