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It rains. It rains. And then it rains some more.
This afternoon I stood in the run watching where all the leaks in the roof are. In theory there ought to be no leaks, as the roof is a spectacular piece of engineering, however, when you screw in and miss the beam below it tends to make water-drop sized holes all over the place. We have about 3 leaks like this and then the water seems to just flow down from the edge and straight in to the run’s floor. This is not good for the Hemcore, which is best not to be wet!I look at photos of the lovely dry, white Hemcore we had when it first went down and wonder when it will be like that again! Probably not for a long time if Sydney and her scratching routine have anything to do with it!
Today we installed the guttering along the front of the run. I wanted brown guttering but after finding everything I needed and putting it all in the trolley at B&Q I realised there were no brown downpipes and had to put it all back in order to get the black stuff.
We got it all up just in time as there was another huge downpour just as we finished.
This weekend we have had two sets of our neighbours round to see the chickens. Both seemed mightily impressed, made jokes about wanting to be included in the Great Egg Distribution in the future and one even petted one of the chickens for a while as they watched they didn’t get muck on their shoes.
Today we had the longest egg-laying experience so far. Lacey took over 6 hours to lay her first egg (with us) and by the end of it I was exhausted with all the research I had done on *egg bound chickens*. Thankfully she pushed it out before I had to resort to any of the tricks I learned! All in all – waiting for that egg to come has been the most nerve-racking thing I have done so far!