By the end of the 2nd week, we were still harvesting one and, on occasion, two eggs per day. I still didn't know which of the two are laying or if they both are, but since we first let them roam I did notice a slight drop in egg production. I think this was because they were roaming instead of sitting infront of the food bowl the entire day, gorging themselves, because they had nothing else to do. This is obviously what they did in the battery farm because they would have had nothing else to do in their tiny cages except for eat. I was obviously glad and hoped that they would slow down with the egg production because I felt they must have needed a rest.
By this time I was also mixing their old 'laying' feed, which is what they were used to, with more of a grain type diet. The plan was to slowly reduce the ratio of the old 'laying' feed and eventually replacing their diet with an all grain diet supplemented by the juicy and nutritious treats they find in the garden and which I might give them from time to time.
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