All cooped up

So...the idea here is that all the chickens live in harmony together in this wonderful coop. Evelyn, however, is way older than the chicks and likes to throw her weight around. After she battled with Sunny D and bloodied his comb and attacked Puff and left her wing and side bloody, I realized that this was not going to work. So I now keep Evelyn separate. She free ranges during the day and at night I lock the Littles in the coop and let Evelyn into the run. She has a temporary box under the coop in which she sleeps. Sunny D is now the one on the roost at night and the hens snuggle together on the floor. I think he is pretty proud of himself!

So now the really entertaining aspect of all this is that the kitty stalks Evelyn practically all day every day. The kitty watches the Littles, too, like a cat watches goldfish. But with Evelyn she can actually have some fun, getting her to flap and squawk and run away.
Evelyn hangs around the run all day, wondering how to get in. We will try it again in a couple months when the Littles are as big as Evelyn.