Tuesday Morning Early

Our camera is still out for repairs but Steve moved the outer camera to inside the coop.  I have been watching chickens go into the nest box so I'll know who is laying.  Miss Daisy has nice red waddles and comb but not laying yet, but she does like going in the nest boxes and scratching out the pine shavings.  Brat!
My girls are on their second bag of Feather Fixer and the worst looking one, Sylvie, is looking better.  She has new feathers coming in all over the place and loose ones still sticking out all over.  The other five originals look thinner but didn't lose as many as Sylvie did.
Now that I'm retired I've been letting them out every afternoon.  Steve made fencing/gates to keep them off the porch.  We need to put chicken wire along the bottoms of them because they cans still fit through the slats.  The new girls are brats and fly up to the top of the fences.  I caught Racer (speckled Sussex) on top of the 4' fence between the front and back yards the other day and sent her back to her side.  The barred rocks have never shown interest in going in the front yard.  The new girls get on the 3' garden fence all the time to get to the pyracantha berries.    The Polish don't do that, nor make a mess in the nesting boxes.  They are not laying yet, either, only two of the new ones are so far.
We transplanted the kale from the garden into several places one inside a fence in my pipe sections garden and the other was in a big pot by the greenhouse.  They discovered it and mowed it right down.  I need to put a section of fencing around it today so it can come back without being eaten as it does.  Today is supposed to be fairly nice and then we have a freeze coming this week.