"Oh, hello, yes, may we come in? We quite enjoyed our visit yesterday!" painted all over their expectant little faces.I felt bad shutting the door on their cute, fluffy little butts, so I threw them the breakfast scraps first.
Crazy chickens!
I let my group out today, too. It must be a chicken thing, though, on very windy days as I came away with only 5 eggs myself. Maybe all that wind fluffing up their backside just felt too weird to them and they concentrate after that.
I had the easier way done and only have 3 cuts total. They were having a very difficult time removing the stone, though, that they almost did it the other way. Due to the size of the stone, they had to enlarge the cut halfway up my belly to get the stone out so the cut is longer than it should be. It took a little bit of time, but thankfully they were able to get it out before giving up and reverting to the old way.
Did you check at your local feed elevator? They usually carry it all year long. At least ours does. So does our TSC.My chickens do this but I have never had them in the house!! But you know mine always show up and give me those looks because they know I'm a sucker and will throw them something. We also have the guineas that show up and won't shut up until you feed them.
It was a bad day today, woke with tooth pain, car's starter died in Petoskey, then the Michigan Treasury didn't give us the right refund because there was a blank line where there shouldn't have been.They need a smiley pulling it's hair out!
On the good side, I am in amazement at how much snow we lost today! If it hadn't been for that stupid storm I could be digging in the dirt today! We are down to about a foot to a foot and a half. I tried to get medicated chick starter today for the little ones about to hatch. I don't usually feed medicated until I move them outside where they will be exposed to cocci. But the little ones who will be hatching in the coop need it right away. Anyway I couldn't get any. Chick day's don't start up here till next month. So I sterilized the little coop as much as possible with cleaning and bleaching. Tomorrow I will spay with Premritrin - bad spelling - and get it set up to move broody mama in. Will mama be enough heat for the little guys? I don't have power in the little coop as I have never used it for winter, but I could do an extension cord if I need to. I counted up yesterdays eggs and got 25, out of 28 hens, including one broody and one not laying yet, that means only one lazy Polish!
