why is my egg production down?
12 under this hen…. (left)
8 on top of the hay bales-that’s our roof- I had to climb to get them down!
oh look! here’s more hens-how many eggs do they have? hint-over 20!
gotta love holiday weekends!! I have time to solve mysteries, take pictures, and update the blog 
I’m not sure who hatched these chicks, but they seem to be sharing mothering duty. The black australorp (Adelia) sat on eggs for over 60 days, the buff orpington (Genevieve) sat on chicks for a little over three weeks when we went out to discover three chicks running around with the two of them. There’s another one hiding under one of the mama’s. Sorry not a very good picture! These are otherwise known as our “goat chickens” because these two and another hen and one rooster live with our three oberhasli goats. They always went there on there on their own, so we just moved their coop in and now they help with parasite control :)
I was listening to the news this morning and heard “small dog advisory in effect.” Hmmm, never heard that before. All I could gather was that small dogs should be indoors today because of the 55+ mph wind gusts expected today. I never thought about it before, but I guess they could blow away??? In any case, my chickens are still happily running around in the pasture. three day old baby chicks and all I’ll try to get another post of the chicks up, but no guarantees…..
Landen
Our first cria of the year! I was on a field trip with my daughter and my husband texted to say “it’s a boy!” He is about two weeks old now, very cute and doing well. I think he will be a dark fawn. My daughter named him, Landen.
We had a successful shearing day; shearing 21 alpacas in 3 hours. Thank you to everyone who helped out! We couldn’t have done it without you!!!!
This is Rosabella (mama) and Henrietta (chick). Mama hen went broody and we put a chick under her. She adopted it and they live happily with the other hens and our rooster. We tried to separate them to a different area, but she got so stressed out, we put her back with the others. She has been raising the chick for over a week now. Also, an update on the two coops in the same area-they have chosen to live together, but they lay eggs in both-go figure.
We colored our very own farm fresh eggs today-look at the amazing colors we got when we dyed brown and green eggs. Secret though— they are at least a couple weeks old. sshh, but we were told when we first got our chickens that you can’t hard boil “fresh” eggs! What?!!!! Believe it or not…. and we have had several customers tell us the same thing. Apparently, eggs you buy in the grocery store are about a month old by the time they hit the shelves. Crazy, huh? So, when we found this clutch of eggs hiding behind a bale of hay in our barn, we put them in water to see if they sank or floated. They sank, so we saved them for our easter eggs. One cracked while we were boiling it-it tasted delicious! Happy Easter! Don’t worry, all the eggs we give to others are fresh!
