Our chickens have started laying about 200 eggs a day - which is brilliant news!! However the shed where they were housed was a bit small and the chickens were cramped and uncomfortable (this means less eggs!!). So the decision was made that it was time to move them to their lovely new chicken shed!! Scott estimated that this would take about 2 hours...so moving began at about 5pm. However we only had about 30 chicken crates to move them - each crate taking 10 chickens. We needed to move 1700!! (A bit less after we had counted them and realised that some - 400 - had 'gone missing'!)
The workers were amazing!! The two that were catching the chickens managed somehow to carry five in each hand!! Dan would then put them in the crates and I would count them. Then Scott and Wilfred, along with the workers, would load them onto the truck and deliver them to their new home!! Very exciting!! This whole procedure took about 7 hours and the guys were eventually finished some time after 12!!
Then chickens LOVE their new home and are very happy with the innovative nesting boxes - check out the picture!! Kimberley and Stephen had a school excursion to the shed yesterday and were very excited to find 6 eggs in the nesting boxes!!
We also hit another milestone yesterday as our chickens layed their 1000 egg!!
(This will be blown and set next to our first ovo!!)
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