Turtle Mania and Our New Chicken Coop

Wherein, the bored collie Jane brings me her fourth or fifth turtle. Don't think this is a box turtle, but I really don't know enough about turtles to know exactly what kind it was.

Additionally, here are some nice pictures of our rhode island reds:

The African geese:

Carmen and Shane, two of our Americaunas:

And our new chicken coop, with Jenny, our Plymouth Barred Rock, as the tour guide:

Go lay some eggs, Jenny!

Our carpenter extraordinaire told us to use plastic milk crates as nesting boxes, and additionally, that you don't need very many, as all the hens will want to lay in the same nesting box anyway. He told us two nesting boxes would be more than enough for 8 hens, and so far, it has been.