New Egg-Mobile

This morning, after a much needed rain, I picked up the trailer for the next egg-mobile.  We currently have 80 layers going strong, but another 200 are started and getting ready to begin laying.  Some have already.  So, it is time for a new coop.  The new layers have been growing in a hoop house and the coop and contained by some netting for their outdoor run.  That was working well until they decided they did not like to be enclosed.  The older batch began flying out of the net.  Once that happened, I had to take their net to save the garden.  Then they found the blueberries.  They adore berries.  So I had to take the other net for the younger batch and save the berries.  So, now we have 200 laying hens wandering the yard at their leisure.  And they are leisurely.  This activity prompted me to get on the ball with the new coop.  I hope to have it done by Sunday to get them out on pasture.  We will also be making our last field of hay this week and processing a batch of 75 chickens on Saturday.  I do have all of the material for the laying house, it will just be putting it together that takes the time.  We will build it out of our own pine we had sawed last year.