1 brown (1S)

Sunday 2 brown (1S,1L)

1 brown (1S)

it has been very hot during the day.

Swam usual (actually took a break at lap 23.5 because I was coughing and needed to clear some mucus, after i did so I finished out 35 laps as usual).

2 brown (1S,1L)

1 brown (1L) 1 brown cannibalized (1S).

I have some new video of older and 2 month chicks scratching and playing dominance games to post.

Wow, I've been remiss in posting egg counts the past week.

2 brown (1S,1L)

Tuesday 2 brown (2L)
Monday 2 brown (1S,1L)
Sunday 2 brown (1S,1L)
Saturday 1 green, 2 brown (1S,1L)
Friday 2 brown (1S,1L)

2 brown (1S,1L)

Wednesday 1 brown (1L)
swam usual (night swim season)

1 green, 3 brown (1S,2L)

americauna laid egg in cicken yard.

Monday 2 brown (1S,1L)

3 brown (1S,2L)

swam usual. Weekday swim is over, will be trying to make Monday or Wednesday night swim.

Saturday 2 brown (1S,1L)

Friday 2 brown (1S,1L)

2 brown (1S,1L)

Wednesday 1 brown cannibalized (1L)

3 brown (1S,2L)

swam usual.

1 brown (1S)

Chicks are running wild - playing dominance games outside the coop, but staying with their age group - they know the older hens are ahead of them in the (literal) pecking order. I bought a second bag of chick starter (different mix of grain meals than hen lay pellets). That's going to be all the chick starter I get this year - it will run out sometime after the chicks are 3 months old and ready for regular lay pellets as their main feed.

I'll get some cell phone video of them posted here in the next couple of days.

2 brown (1S,1L) + 1 brown cannibalized (1L)

1 brown (1L)

swam usual.

Another marauder won't be returning. He ate 2 of Friday's cackleberry harvest before being trapped and dispatched to whence he won't return. Now to determine where the Americauna has been laying. The masked one had been leaving green egg shells prior to his dispatch I have some clues to where she's been laying.

Friday 3 brown (1S,2L)

2 brown (1S,1L) + 1 brown cannibalized (1L)

Chicks are leaving the segregated area routinely now. They get back to the coop pretty frequently, think that the rooster is intimidating them.

2 brown (1S,1L)

3 brown (1S,2L)

1 brown (1S) + 1 brown cannibalized (1L)

swam usual

2 brown (1S,1L)

2 brown (2L) + 1 brown cannibalized (1S)

Rooster managed to get into the segregated area (to be fair he was trying to escape my efforts to chase him out of the coop). He needs to become stew soon.

Friday 2 brown (1S,1L)

swam usual.