This past Thursday his dream came true. He built himself a chicken coop, a luxury one at that with 4 laying boxes for each one of the hens. They aren't allowed to roam free in the yard but have a nice "dog run" but really it's a chicken run.
They have adjusted to their new home quite well, three of them laid eggs the 1st day they were here but the 4th one isn't laying JUST yet!
I never thought in my lifetime would I be the proud owner of chickens, living right in the heart of the city. What a whole new world this is for me.
I have to laugh the lady we bought the hens from wanted to get rid of her "rooster" a rooster that doesn't crow, when Guy picked up the bird he KNEW right away why it didn't crow because it isn't a ROOSTER it's a HEN!!! A big fat LAYING one at that. We all just had to laugh when we realized no wonder the "rooster" didn't crow.
Here we are a week later and we have our 1st dozen!!
We have big brown ones that are double yolk, medium and small ones. There is one hen that hasn't started to lay yet and the little one hasn't learned not to just drop an egg where ever she feels like it. Hopefully soon she will learn to sit in a box, any box will do. Shoot there are even four of them to make her home.
We are all learning so many new things. The boys love the hens and collecting the eggs.
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