It has been cold and rainy and I tried to make the chicken’s covered run more exciting by putting in a large branch. The branch has been sitting behind the coop for awhile, so cleaning off the tiny branches to make it more roost friendly was easy.

The chickens are not impressed. They love their branch perches in the uncovered runs, but this new one has been met with incredulous skepticism. If after a few weeks they still don’t like it, I’ll come up with something different.

But hey, I still have a lap chicken!