its been about two months since the girls have started laying eggs. i've just been watching them be chickens. our girls are as healthy as they can be and have gotten bigger. i get three brown eggs and one of the girls (pretty sure it's duck) is giving us speckled pink eggs. not all at once we almost always get three eggs a day with an inconsistent four. their shells are nice and hard meaning that they are getting their calcium because of the oysters shells they eat once a month. it's also good for making their bones strong. from what the clerk at our feed store told us they will know how much to eat. amazing really.
we've started giving them more treats from the usual scratch, tortillas and blueberries. they enjoy watermelon, strawberry leaves, the inside of a cucumbers, rice and lettuce leaves. our neighborhood is very safe and we are lucky that they can spend most of the day wandering the back yard without supervision. i have been doing a lot of yard work so they follow me curiously and leaf through my piles for worms and bugs. my girls are pretty much grass eaters.
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they only have one bad habit and that's that we let them sleep on top of their coop. which means more cleaning. there will be a super cleaning next month before the next six month's super cleaning. the weather has been hot here and i've notice two of the girls walking around with their wings spread away from their bodies. i'll have to look into that. i've made two shade spots for them to access, under a couple of trees and underneath of their coop in their pen. it was a great idea to raise that coop giving them access to underneath. it's where they spend most of their time when bathing in the dirt.
