Dear Chicken Mamas!
After the disappointment of little Pan not making it last week, I'd say we're doing a pretty good job moving onward. It helps to know that we did our best and Pan never did really seem as healthy as everyone else....
Erin built the portable chicken coop this weekend!! It's amazing! So now we can place it anywhere in the yard, put the hens inside, and they are safe and sound in the yard with us, the dogs, and so on. I had them in it and near me while gardening yesterday, and they just seemed so happy....clucking around, eating grass, laying together in the sun and shade....so satisfying to see them this way. We've had them loose in the yard a few times, and they love to eat leaves along the fenceline, poke around in the garden--eat the snap pea leaves, etc....but once they've done a bit of exploring, they want to run back to the safety of their coop!!
Faline seems content as long as Natalie holds her....she sits on Natalie's lap, comes to Nat when she's called, loves being carried around, talked to, sung to, and so on :)
We're also feeding them leftovers of things--they love cantelope, Grampy's bread, some lettuces/spinach, watermelon, and their own food. It's amazing how much water they drink!
Thank you, Bambi and Mary, for the blue tarps from Home Depot--we have needed them several times already to keep the rain out of their coop run!! Also, Erin found that people are switching to using sand in their coops (instead of pine mulch) and raving about it because sand is cheaper, cleaner, chickens love it for sand baths and grit anyway, and it can keep them a bit cooler in the heat of summer.
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