My name is Anna and I live in the NC foothills only a tenth of a mile from the SC state line. It's beautiful country and a great place to have chickens!
Here is my darling family: My husband, his four children, and me...the wicked step mother! (I don't mind this label, really)
This is...
I'm so sorry! I don't have internet at home so I didn't get the message about weighing it. I don't have a good scale anyways so I don't know if it would work well. Here is the pic...its a double yolk with the yolks fused!! I have never seen that before!! Poor girl
My poor little Leghorn laid this egg right in the middle of the run, in the mud. She must have needed to get it out fast. It had blood on it.
Poor girl!!!!
I definitely think that I could let them out all day. My only concerns are these: 1. We live on a road that is not very busy but people drive VERY fast on it. 2. We live in the old church parsonage next to the graveyard where people come to visit their dead family members and I don't know how...
Day two of free ranging went really well also! We had a slight scare as we came home and started counting chickens and couldn't find our rooster Waylon. I got the spotlight and started looking around. He had roosted on the ledge above the outside doors to the nesting boxes!! What a relief!!
Well yesterday was an experiment and it went really really well. I think my girls were getting bored in the run! Our plan for now is to do this every day when I get home from work. Thankfully, our dogs keep a lot of the predators away!
I have been wanting to let my chickens free range some in the afternoons when I get home from work. Yesterday it was pouring rain and there were bugs a plenty so we let the girls (and our guy) out. We had to run some errands so we left the coop door open with a light on inside. When we got home...
I am very sad about the current situation in my coop. I have two buff orps who are gorgeous ladies. However, they are the meanest girls in the coop. They chase everyone off from the food and I have seen them jump on some of the smaller hens. I have separated them from the rest of the hens before...