ChickaChickaChooCho000
Songster
Just here to show some photos of my chickens. Nothing big or fancy haha. Just a spring update I guess, and to post something to update my BYC account.
Just them enjoying and picking at the grass and scratch grains on a peacefully warm and sunny morning. Plus the egg laying has peaked once again. Literally 6-7 eggs a day now which is very different compared to past years of just 2-3 hens with 2-3 eggs. So there’s 4 medium-large eggs and 3 small eggs. Daily... haha!!! That’s very different considering it’s a backyard setting.
BTW: I’m really proud of my two oldest hens, the black sex-link and the orange hen. They’re about 4-5 years now and they are laying just fine, since beginning of March they’ve been picking up their pace again. This was the first winter that they didn’t lay during winter but it’s okay. It was suuuuuper cold in Minnesota and they’re getting old. The eggs are a little smaller now but that’s okay, what matters is that they’re enjoying life, free ranging, it’s a rewarding feeling since they(and the white hen) were once caged-up chickens in slaughterhouse. They’re livin the nice, easygoing, relaxing life now
. I want them to grow as old as they can.
But yeah... just gotta say, we neeeed to re-home our rooster and 3 smaller hens. They can be loud and flighty(and they’re my dad’s chickens, which he doesn’t take care of cuz I do haha.) They’ve grown on me, but you know? This is just too many chickens for a backyard setting
. Plus the rooster being a bit annoying nowadays.
The other four larger hens are actually mine, so I’d obviously plan to keep them. Also, I’d much rather have those chickens enjoy their freedom of flight and tree-hopping since they can’t in my backyard. We have neighbors too so we can’t have them flying around freely, so they have clipped flight feathers.
Random Story Time:
The bottoms half of the hierarchy is just very funny because 2 of the small hens were settled there before the white and gray hen so they literally be bossing those big hens around when the big hens in actuality can easily beat them in the pecking order, it was just that they were the “new kid on the block”. The sapphire gem came after all of them and is just very docile. She didn’t even fight any hens when she met them, and she just took the pecking and that was it. She knew her place and didn’t care much haha. But the white hen was overly trying to be dominant on the gem and was even going to the extent of MOUNTING her like a rooster. I was shocked to see that type of behavior for the first time. But yes, they’re all buddy-buddy now so hopefully it stays that way.
Just them enjoying and picking at the grass and scratch grains on a peacefully warm and sunny morning. Plus the egg laying has peaked once again. Literally 6-7 eggs a day now which is very different compared to past years of just 2-3 hens with 2-3 eggs. So there’s 4 medium-large eggs and 3 small eggs. Daily... haha!!! That’s very different considering it’s a backyard setting.
BTW: I’m really proud of my two oldest hens, the black sex-link and the orange hen. They’re about 4-5 years now and they are laying just fine, since beginning of March they’ve been picking up their pace again. This was the first winter that they didn’t lay during winter but it’s okay. It was suuuuuper cold in Minnesota and they’re getting old. The eggs are a little smaller now but that’s okay, what matters is that they’re enjoying life, free ranging, it’s a rewarding feeling since they(and the white hen) were once caged-up chickens in slaughterhouse. They’re livin the nice, easygoing, relaxing life now
. I want them to grow as old as they can.But yeah... just gotta say, we neeeed to re-home our rooster and 3 smaller hens. They can be loud and flighty(and they’re my dad’s chickens, which he doesn’t take care of cuz I do haha.) They’ve grown on me, but you know? This is just too many chickens for a backyard setting
. Plus the rooster being a bit annoying nowadays.The other four larger hens are actually mine, so I’d obviously plan to keep them. Also, I’d much rather have those chickens enjoy their freedom of flight and tree-hopping since they can’t in my backyard. We have neighbors too so we can’t have them flying around freely, so they have clipped flight feathers.
Random Story Time:
The bottoms half of the hierarchy is just very funny because 2 of the small hens were settled there before the white and gray hen so they literally be bossing those big hens around when the big hens in actuality can easily beat them in the pecking order, it was just that they were the “new kid on the block”. The sapphire gem came after all of them and is just very docile. She didn’t even fight any hens when she met them, and she just took the pecking and that was it. She knew her place and didn’t care much haha. But the white hen was overly trying to be dominant on the gem and was even going to the extent of MOUNTING her like a rooster. I was shocked to see that type of behavior for the first time. But yes, they’re all buddy-buddy now so hopefully it stays that way.
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. I guess I can just say it’s a big backyard. Also, the dogs are kind to the chickens, they even come eat the chickens food WITH the chickens sometimes haha! Mealworms especially haha! 
