Ha! Nice "egg bag", Mel! Our chickens are teenagers, and they DO get hassled by the neighbor chickens some. But something funny happened... the black hen that comes around all the time decided she likes our new chickens, and she spent the night in our potato bin last night, because it's right next to the chicken coop. Our neighbors warned us that we need to lock our chickens in the coop for a week or so, like you mentioned, otherwise they'd start living with the neighbors. Maybe we are going to do the opposite, though: steal the black hen by accident! Hahahhaha. Who know how long before eggs. Might be never; i think one of ours is a rooster. :P You think the BRAAAWK is annoying? Try COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO at 5:45 AM right under your bed. Literally. Right... under... the bed (our house is on stilts, and the coop is sortof under it). Jokes on me, i guess.