Illinois...

[Molpet]

We lost one of our beloved Tweedles (not sure if it's Dumb or Dee since I never did tell them apart). It's one of our two light brahmas. They were my most desired chicken when we started and remind my favorites over the past few years. We've had them for 3.5 years, and we we just have one.
No clear sign of why she died. No puncture wounds or anything like that. DW went out this morning to do chicken chores and found her laying on the ground. She wasn't the top hen, but we don't have any bad pecking going on and there's no roo to harass her so it's not that. We'll just get her out of there and hope everybody else is doing alright, keeping a closer eye on them for added precaution.

Sorry for your loss, hate when it's a favorite

 

[Faraday40]

My hens have almost stopped laying, but I got another turkey egg.
So weird.

 

[cavemanrich]

All my hens are on strike. Some went to seek help.

 

[cavemanrich]

I stole borrowed this one from @N F C

 

[N F C]

I stole borrowed this one from @N F C

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And I stole borrowed it from @igorsMistress

I guess a lot of us are having the same forecast!

 

[SnootyHen]

My year old girls are still laying but the older ladies are fully on strike. Even my trusty Leghorn who lays almost every day hasn't laid in a month. My Mystic Marans who is goot for 5-6 eggs a week has been 6 weeks since she's laid and my Russian Orloff (who not only lays almost every day but laid the day after "the puppy incident" which left her wounded) has been almost a month. The rest even longer. They were molting pretty hard but are all almost done. Do I dare hope for a few good weeks before they go completely off for the winter? Probably not. They are roosting by 5pm these days so not enough daylight to keep their little motors running. But at least they look pretty and shiney again after months of looking sickly and naked. LOL!!!

Got the coop winterized for the most part on Sunday and just in time. This wind is brutal!! I haven't added any straw yet but will probably do that soon. I just hate how hard it is to clean once you start adding it so I want to hold off as long as I can.

 

[BReeder!]

Got the coop winterized for the most part on Sunday and just in time.

This reminds me, I need to clean out the duck section of the coop before we get too far along into freezing weather. I'll be giving them plenty of straw and continue to add as the trample it down throughout the winter. Once we thaw out in Spring I'll need to clean it out good again. That's the best I can do with them because any poop, water and feed they get on the ground/bedding mixes together and freezes throughout the winter. Just cover it and keep waiting for Spring. They chickens poop board is a weekly or even every two week chore when it's warm but will become a daily chore now else it freeze on top of the old poop and there's quickly an unmovable mountain of frozen poop. Gross, especially come Spring melt.

 

[BReeder!]

Before I go to bed: HAPPY THANKSGIVING, everybody! I'm thankful for this group of helpful and generous people.

 

[SnootyHen]

This reminds me, I need to clean out the duck section of the coop before we get too far along into freezing weather. I'll be giving them plenty of straw and continue to add as the trample it down throughout the winter. Once we thaw out in Spring I'll need to clean it out good again. That's the best I can do with them because any poop, water and feed they get on the ground/bedding mixes together and freezes throughout the winter. Just cover it and keep waiting for Spring. They chickens poop board is a weekly or even every two week chore when it's warm but will become a daily chore now else it freeze on top of the old poop and there's quickly an unmovable mountain of frozen poop. Gross, especially come Spring melt.

Last winter I had to use an ax to get frozen Mt Poopmore off the roosts so there was room for them! LOL!!!!

 

[NotAFarm]