We barricaded the chicken coop so that the piglets wouldn't get into it any more and eat eggs. It worked for quite awhile and our egg production went back up to about a dozen a day. But this morning, I went out and the barricade was open. Probably the wind, but it could've been the pigs or the goats who knocked it down. Unfortunately, the eggs that they ate were the ones that Penguin (one of the broody hens) was just about ready to hatch out. She has been trying to hatch a brood of chicks for over a month. Early on, she lost her nest to the piglets and had to start over. So again, she's without a clutch.
Luckily, the piglets didn't get Jasmine's eggs (the other broody hen). So I took half of the eggs from Jasmine and put them in Penguin's nest. Hopefully that will give her a head start. I know Penguin will not give up until she hatches her brood. And I would just put her in a brooding box and break her of it, but the neighbor has asked me if I have any chicks for sale and I'd love to get a few over to her.
We will be reinforcing the barricade and then fixing the door in the next few days. But we have to get the goat fence (which will also become a piglet fence) up first. Honestly, I think that the chickens will be fine if we can get those piglets out of the picture.
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