My chickens are happy! They're still laying daily even with the cold weather. They have been a bunch of prima donnas about not wanting to walk across the snow so I've been carrying them (like a fool) to patches where there is no snow. I get five eggs a day, with 7 hens. I think a couple haven't...
My little white leghorn laid two eggs late last night/early this morning. She's pretty young and just started laying this summer 5-7 eggs a week. She went a few days without laying (stress of adding a rooster I think), so this totally caught me off guard. I'm glad to hear it's somewhat normal-...
We just bought our homestead and inherited a flock of chickens along with it. Six Rhode Island Reds and a white chicken whose breed I don't know.
Here's a funny anecdote from last night: I didn't know if the chickens would go back to their coop at night on their own and ended up chasing them...