A little bit of interior (and exterior) design

To ensure our little group are comfortable we thought it would be a good idea to extend the length of the perch in chicken coop. The original perch was about about 4ft long. 5 of the girls have been perching happily together on this since the new ladies were introduced. Broody Caroline has been in one of the nesting boxes and dusty has been either sleeping on the floor or in the other nestbox. We are not sure why it is always her on the floor; perhaps she is the bottom end of the pecking order. She certainly can perch has we have seen her do this in the day.

Here Ant is installing the new perch; it is just over 6ft.



We created a hanging perch with the original coop perch. A chicken swing!



The other good news is that we found this cream 49g egg. That means that Blossom must had laid! It is definately not a Snowy egg as hers are pure white in colour and she has laid too; infact she was just releasing the egg as I opened the nestbox this afternoon. I am not sure who was most shocked, me or her!



Here is Blossom. 18 weeks old and laid her first egg! Blossom is a Tiffany green and so should lay green eggs. This first egg is most definately cream though so I shall research to whether her eggs may change colour or they will stay cream.