The new girls have been here a whole week. I let them all out and the newbies went to their run and I shut them in for the morning. My other girls gave me 3 eggs today. One of them has a day off now and again.
After lunch I let the newbies out into their bit of the run. The didn't rush out, and my originals were having a siesta. A bit later there was some clucking, and when I went out to see what was happening, Alice was out and sitting on a flower pot. The others were watching her, but no one attacked! I caught her and put her back with the others.I also clipped Belle and Brambles wing today.
As Belle and Bramble are close to starting laying eggs I put some straw in a box for them to use as a nest box. When I went out later they'd tipped it over!
No one else escaped or scrapped, and to my amazement when I got back from choir practice the newbies were thundering up the ladder to bed. I don't know how they got out, presumably over the fence. I'm amazed, and delighted, but I'm not counting my chickens yet, lets see what tomorrow brings, but I feel much better about the girls, and perhaps there is light at the end of the tunnel.
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