Monday, April 18, 2011

Easter Egg Hunt!

We moved the chicken tractor yesterday because it was getting STINKY, and so the chickens have more shade for the summer, and to try to move their focus away from the back porch (AKA their latrine). However, chickens aren't really into change - they won't go into the tractor voluntarily now, and based on the number of eggs in the tractor nest boxes, they apparently have decided they don't want to lay eggs in this drastically different location (i.e., the same house 20 feet away from where it was before). Sooo, we have to figure out where they are hiding eggs now. Last year we kept finding hiding places in weird spots, such as under the corner of a tarp - there were 20 there by the time I discovered it! The eggs we find on our hunt will be brown, but by the fall we will have some pastel blue and green eggs because 5 of our new chicks are Araucanas (also called Easter Eggers)!

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