Chickens on Lockdown

I love our chickens.  They are pretty awesome egg layers now and they are good entertainment.  The leghorns have been laying daily and even the "fancies" have been laying as well.

Nice little assortment...

We have our new coop mama and one of the older coop mamas has gotten out of her mid-life crisis and has gotten back to sitting on eggs.  She's as grumpy as ever, but she does a nice job of sitting on the eggs.  Really, it's a pretty enjoyable world out there in the coop.  Key words..."in the coop".  The hens have been permanently banished to the coop.  I'm not sure if one is able to train chickens to poop in a certain area, but I would love to do that.  The last straw this weekend was when several hens were resting on the hood of Husband's truck.  When they vacated, they left us lovely piles of chicken poop.  He was less than amused at this.  Really, they are pretty disgusting critters...they poop EVERYWHERE!!!!!  And all the time too.  So, we put them on lockdown.  They expressed their displeasure at the whole situation by not laying a lot of eggs the last two days.  Maybe they are smarter than I originally thought.