We have several Black Walnut trees. These trees are interesting in that they lose leaves year round. They fall, bright yellow on the green grass and Fred gets very excited. He’s sqwaks and clucks calling the girls over for a delicious treat, only it’s a leaf. And they are all over the ground. The chickens [...]
As you all know last week we got our first egg. Teresa got the process started, but Julian made it infinitely more interesting. For one, she decided to use the nest boxes on the second story, which is a lot harder to get to but I’m pleased to see she likes it better. Second, she [...]
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Yesterday the chickens were panicking. Some of them managed to fly out of their little pen. All of them though were running in absolute fear. Fred was making his “Danger, danger” call and the girls were listening and heading for cover.
The problem is that they were running from a Butterfly. Yes. A [...]
Our chickens are lazy! Well I imagine that’s the case anyway as none of them have laid an egg yet. I’m not sure how much of a sign of egg laying readiness this is, but Fred has been doing his business. Often.
There are a lot of girls so the love gets spread around, which is [...]