It has been a most disappointing summer, egg-wise. Nothing I did would coax more eggs from the girls. Yesterday, there wasn’t a single egg in the nest boxes. No offense, girls but I’m feeding you. I need something back in return! Had to put a sign up on the refrigerators so folks wouldn’t wonder what happened. Maybe the chickens are… (more…)
T minus 16 days til the days begin to get longer again and then the egg production will slowly begin to pick up. As fast as I collect a dozen eggs and put them in the refrigerator, they are sold. Hopefully, the newest hens should start producing small eggs in about 2 weeks which will help the egg shortage a little. But that’s… (more…)
Almost 2 months old… T minus 15 weeks til they begin to produce more eggs. I moved them out onto pasture the other day after work. Think I’m going to try some electrical fence netting to allow them more pasture when they are older but keep them separate from the older flock. That way I can see if the older… (more…)