Tag Archives: What The Heck

The Mystery of the Vanishing Eggs

So, the hot weather hit, the hens stopped laying much for a few weeks, started to pick up again, first with larger eggs then with more eggs of the larger size.  Then hot weather hit again, the production took another nose-dive that didn’t recover.  I even noticed a few hens molting….  They had plenty of food, the feeders were full.  I… (more…)

More Chicks, More Soy-Free Eggs

So, I thought things were settling down after I moved the flock that was being eaten by an unknown predator from the back field to the field by the house.  But then the hot weather hit… well, what?… 3 days of heat?…. Just enough to put the hens off… the number of eggs produced dropped, and of course, my sales increased. Ain’t that… (more…)