Chicken update

We have a new chicken arrival. 

She is a black star chicken who we have named Ray Ray.  She is very friendly and will produce 6-7 eggs per week as soon as she settles in.

 When you bring a new chicken into your coop the other chickens will pick on her until she becomes part of the flock.  In our case Cinnabon is the top of the pecking order, and it has taken some time for her to allow Ray Ray in. 

In order to get the chickens used to one another you place the new chicken in the same area as the flock but in a separate cage.  You also place the new chicken in a cage in the coop during the night (so the chicken will learn that the coop is home).  Over the past 2 weeks Ray Ray has become an accepted part of the flock.

We have also put our smaller chickens (who we have been raising since they were chicks) in an adjoining cage so that they will all become used to each other as the little ones grow large enough to join the flock.

(Winny is in front Arya is behind).