A Day in the Chicken Coop

Hi this is Natalie and I'm writing to you from Spring Brook Farm in Reading, VT.  The first picture shows me, Jane, and Caitlin feeding the chickens at the chicken coop.  This is right next to the heifer barn where we have done our AM and PM chores.  The chickens in the chicken in the coop are all hens and there are no roosters there currently, meaning all of the eggs are edible and unfertilized.  The picture below is of me holding up the eggs that we collected from the nests of the hens.  It's hard to tell, but the colors of the eggs are blue, light brown, peach, and white.  The shells are hardened inside the chicken from the dirt they peck at during the day.  At night they have to go back inside the coop because even though there are wire fences around the pen, predators such as coyotes and foxes can still get in.  The chickens look really funny walking around with their waddles waddling.  Some of them have really fluffy bellies, but even though it looks tempting to pet, they don't like being picked up.  I know from experience!