The chickens have been doing well; Gertrude, the less social one, has taken on the bad habit of sleeping in the nest box, which means she poops in it and unless we clean it out early in the morning, they lay their eggs there (quite gross).
We received good news recently, however: A friend of mine at work (who I grew up with and played soccer with in high school) and his wife have bought chickens for their backyard, and they bought too many, and they bought the exact kind I originally wanted, the much-coveted Buff Orpington!
So they kindly and providentially told us they needed to give away two of them, which are about 3 weeks old currently, so we are going to take them. 
Hopefully we can get them to “play well” with Lobelia and Gertrude, who have had the run of the roost for a long time now.
The Buff Orpington:
