It is sad to see my last post. Since then, we lost all 3 of the younger chickens to racoons, first 1, then the other 2. You think you're protecting them but they're incredibly vulnerable; you just can't think of all the ways they can be killed.
So we bought 4 more, because our older one, Chiquita, becomes quite weird when she's alone. Within a week, she herself had actually killed one of the chicks. We had kept them separated but they managed to find a loophole where we thought we had secured everything. It's quite discouraging.
The good news is that the remaining 3 chicks are thriving, and Chiquita has started laying eggs. Yay!! It is the most amazing thing to peek into the nesting section of her coop and see a little brown egg sitting there. I'm not sure I'll ever really get used to it. Now I just have to learn to like eggs!
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