Chickens

• 20 March 2025

✅ Thursday evening: collect eggs. I also scooped lots of snow off the top, which I figured was better than not doing that. Looks like the electric is OK, though it is very snowy there, so I might feel better if it was elevated under a bucket or something. I have buckets, bricks, if you want me to do that. 7 chickens look and sound healthy and happy.

✅ Friday morning: feed half of spinach, cup of black oil sunflower seeds, cup of mealworms; fill water. (For breakfast, there will be a green bin hanging from the chicken run entrance door that you can use.)

• Chickens very noisy in the mornings. 🙂
• "cup of mealworms" -- the mealworms had a 1/2 cup measuring cup inside, so I interpreted that to mean two of those 1/2 cups.
• "cup of sunflower" -- big blue cup in the sunflower seeds, so I interpreted that to mean a full blue cup (which is 4-5 measuring cups?). I figured it was safer to over than underfeed them.
• I threw the spinach in, spreading it around -- they were immediately, mildly interested.
• The rest of the food went into the green bin, which I hung inside and they were very aggressively pushing each other around. That seemed bad, so I scooped 1/3 of it out into my hand and tossed it around inside to spread it out so they weren't all fighting at the green thing.
• Only 6 chickens were eating, the 7th was nesting. There was already 1 egg in the middle nest box. I left the non-eating chicken and the egg alone.
• The green water was still full, so I didn't do any water stuff. Looked pretty clean.
• 7 chickens seem healthy and happy.

✅ Friday evening: collect eggs

✅ Saturday morning: feed remaining half of spinach, cup of black oil sunflower seeds, cup of mealworms, fill water, hang full feeder, and put near empty feeder in gray bin on side of house.

• Witnessed one of the chickens repeatedly picking on a specific other one. 4 "attacks." Then things seemed to calm down. Jay said his alpha "Heny"(?) tends to do that if they haven't been able to run free for a few days.

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