Well, the wonderful news is 7 eggs collected on Sunday!
This was a welcome discovery after getting to the coop at dusk yesterday only to be told by a good Samaritan that a group of kids had been vandalizing the coop. Apparently, they had gotten the snow shovel and were using it to pound on the door to the coop. They bent the top lock pretty bad, to the point that I had to pound the locking device on the door with a rock to get the door to close properly. The blue caribiner was missing from the front door yesterday and this made the damage even worse. I was eventually able to get the chickens all locked up. I think with a new caribiner we should be OK and I will try to get that today.
Thanks goodness for the good Samaritan who said he scared off the group of ne'er-do-wells pretty well just minutes before I arrived. I sure wish I could have been there to read the riot act, but, with any luck, I will never have the need again!
I stowed the tools--shovel, hoe, etc--behind the hay to keep them out of idle hands.
Otherwise a beautiful chickeny day.
Hi Annie,
ReplyDeleteI can't seem to post directly so I put this in a comment below (and meant to address the carbiner issue as well - it was missing on Saturday also). The outside gate is sagging to the point that it's not secure even if locked. It's only a mild deterrent anyhow, since foxes and humans can jump the fence, but it might keep some of the hoodlums out nonetheless. I don't have the skills to fix the gate - any suggestions anyone?