Left my house this morning and had a chicken who had escaped the fence and was running on the outside of the fenceline squawking up a storm. She is a 6-8 month old full sized olive egger hen.....wild as the day is long....she is one of my 2 tree sleepers. Anywho, she was running the fence and freaking out but I was running late for work and she is WILD. So I left her there. Got home after dark tonight and she was back in the yard, up sleeping in 'her tree'. Her best buddy the other olive egger aka tree sleeper #2 was in the rabbit aka small broody hutch. What!? I'm not even sure if she is laying yet...maybe she is getting ready to start laying. She was sitting on one small egg, but no idea if it was hers or another hen's. It was light brown, so hopefully it was not hers!
My blue cochin broody finally broke. Poor thing. She is a young bird.....around a year old.....and this is her 3rd time broody and has always been broken or had her nest stolen...never had any babies of her own. My half blind leghornx hen stole her nest of 4 eggs the other day.....she is sitting well, but i haven't done anything to check the fertility on the eggs.....
Chicken sale this saturday. I'd planned on going but I'm still up in the air on a few pairs so not sure if maybe I should just wait until the Oct 2nd sale and SLEEP IN YAY.
Had to leave the rooster coop open again tonight as its been raining and that pen is too muddy to make it up there. I need to get a path of something leading up to their coop that will keep me from slipping and breaking my neck. What would be best for a dirt/mud hill? Sand? Gravel? Doesn't really matter as far as 'chicken footing' as it will be a narrow path in a large pen.
My blue cochin broody finally broke. Poor thing. She is a young bird.....around a year old.....and this is her 3rd time broody and has always been broken or had her nest stolen...never had any babies of her own. My half blind leghornx hen stole her nest of 4 eggs the other day.....she is sitting well, but i haven't done anything to check the fertility on the eggs.....
Chicken sale this saturday. I'd planned on going but I'm still up in the air on a few pairs so not sure if maybe I should just wait until the Oct 2nd sale and SLEEP IN YAY.
Had to leave the rooster coop open again tonight as its been raining and that pen is too muddy to make it up there. I need to get a path of something leading up to their coop that will keep me from slipping and breaking my neck. What would be best for a dirt/mud hill? Sand? Gravel? Doesn't really matter as far as 'chicken footing' as it will be a narrow path in a large pen.
