Fall was not as cool as last year, but there have been some fairly cold nights and a few very frosty gusty days in November. Also, there were a couple of freezing rain episodes and a few blowing rain that made for a few situations of rain in the coop and frozen door. But I think we have those areas fixed for now. Put a light on a timer in the new coop but the chickens keep knocking the light down from the outlet. Hopefully, we can figure out a better set up.
Of the new hens, all seven get on the roost at once for warmth. We have not put a heat lamp in the coop because it there should be enough bodies in there to keep it warm enough unless we start getting some long term cold. One of the hens does not like laying her eggs in the nesting box. She's routinely laying her eggs in the coop on the floor. Yuck! We're receiving about four eggs per day from the new hens while we are only getting one egg per day from the older hens. We've decided to butcher the older hens for meat. Then we will split up the newer hens into two coops.
The egg sizes are nice, between 47 grams to 58 grams. So we are getting plenty of eggs this year.
