From day 2, I also noticed that the girls started becoming more vocal, especially in the afternoons. I must confess, it made me a bit nervous, because the last thing we needed was for the neighbours to start complaining. Nikki did warn me that the girls might fight with each other initially, while they establish the 'pecking' order, i.e who is the top bird in the coop. I was also told how the girls do tend to be vocal when they are about to lay.
Sure enough, from day 3, when the girls started settling in, I noticed that they were starting to fight. Luckily it was not major, but you could see they are busy establishing the ranking. Today, day 7, this still seems to be going on. Hope seems to be hogging the food bowl, while Love protests and has to try and sneak in when Hope is otherwise preoccupied.
Thankfully the hens seem to be quiet at night. One windy night, I peaked in with a flashlight to check on them and I could see their little bodies cuddled up together in the corner of the coop in the crevice behind the nesting box (seems they prefer that, over what I had tried to put together for them! LOL!). My heart MELTED and, I know I shouldn't worry and that they are perfectly fine, but I felt so worried that they would be too cold.
From day one, the girls were laying at least one egg a day, sometimes two. I don't know who is doing the laying, but all I can say is that by the end of day 7, we had 12 eggs. We threw away the first few and on day 8 had our first egg breakfast using eggs from our hens. It was awesome to know where the eggs were coming from and that the girls were now being well looked after and given the opportunity to experience life as they were naturally designed to do.
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| Our cat "M-ie" investigating the new members of our family |
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