There's a mystery here, Holmes

Ugh.  Up at 7 (6) am.  It's going to take me a while to get used to the time change.  I'm still so sore from yesterday's activities.  One of these days I'll be back in shape.  I filled my water pitcher, scratch bucket and feed tray and took them out to the chicken yard.  Door open and out came JW and the girls. I was moving so slow,  I couldn't get the waterer filled in time and two of the chickens looked at me like they were dying of thirst, even though they have water in their coop.  I think they are getting kinda lazy.  Spoiled much?

    

Dang,  JUST missed her

Today is coop cleanout.   Gaaaaah!    Here is the mystery though.  Every day, for the past week, one of the girls tosses a wooden egg out of the third nest box.  Not sure which hen.  It's always the same egg, and as there are two wooden eggs in the box, some one is discriminating.  Not sure why.  Every day I put the egg back.  Tomorrow, I'll switch this egg with one of the other ones and see what happens.

So I cleaned out the coop and removed the litter to the garden to be spread out tomorrow.  Normally, the girls would do it for me, but they are banished, remember?  I did manage to till some more and planted another row of collards and lettuce.  Almanac says this is the last day of good planting until the 20th.

While I was planting, three bad chickens crawled into my cold frame and scratched up my asparagus!  I didn't get any last year so was really pleased to see some spears come up this year.  Son a frassen rassen hens!  I shooed them out, tried to repair some of the damage and put the wire cover on to prevent a repeat.  JW was not pleased, but I was mad so I backed him up all the way to the house (he won't be chased but he can be backed up).

It's supposed to rain tomorrow so I put the tiller under the carport, moved the hoe and shovel under as well.  All done in time to walk the dogs.

That pretty much wraps my day.  Chickens in an CLEAN COOP.  Yay.  A glass of wine to wind down and to bed.

Bak Bak