The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[The Moonshiner]

Dad didn't have a coop so there was no catching his unless you climbed a tree after dark.I still refuse to climb in a tree for a chicken

I think you only have to get one then you can use it to throw at the others and knock them down.

 

[McChooky]

My parents made us get them every time we stepped on a nail or got a prick.Bet i've had more of them than you lol

 

[McChooky]

I think you only have to get one then you can use it to throw at the others and knock them down.

If I had bantams that might work

 

[The Moonshiner]

Yep, colder and really windy today. Guess if I have to work today would be a day to be here.
Worked yesterday then did chores and started to do some extras but as temps fell so did my motivation.
Built some 2x4 frames with wood on top few days ago to set rubber water bowls on over the winter. Try to cut down on debris being kicked into them and hopefully not have to deal with them freezing to the ground like last year. Each holds two of the three gallon ones. Leveled spots and set up 4 of those. Flipped, stacked and stored a couple of the plastic brooder pens. Cut up a pallet and cut a few more boards so tonight indoors I'm gonna slap together a mini heavy duty pallet to set the latest freezer on in the barn. Idk what it is but things find their way to work themselves into the ground sometimes here. That's how I'm gonna eliminate that. Otherwise come spring I might have to hire a boy with a metal detector to come and find it for me.
Another goal for today is to work on or finish a window. The chick house has several windows. There's one that's just hardware cloth and the breeze goes right into the brooder I'm about to put the laundry room chicks In. I got a piece of plexiglass that I'm going to frame in to fit in the hole. Going to hinge it so it opens upwards so once it warms up again I can open it up but also use it to keep rain from coming in.
Tomorrow day two of cold so probably run errands and such and not much chickening.

 

[McChooky]

It took a couple weeks to hand dig a trench for new water lines on the hillside out front. All the dirt landed at the foot of the hill in a big pile so we had to carry it back up top with a bob cat .Buried the new lines in a sleeve .We won't have to go thru this again for 50 years

 

[The Moonshiner]

so we had to carry it back up top with a bob cat .

I would have had to use my big gorilla cart wagon.

 

[BlueBaby]

I got ahold of 4 brown leghorns and 3 of those silver leghorns too. They are all pullets, so I should have some eggs by spring. They were hatched in August of this year. I'll try to get pictures this afternoon.

I noticed that one of the Silver leghorns doesn't have a tail?

 

[BlueBaby]

I tried to get pictures of the tail end of that silver leghorn that doesn't have a tail, and she is the smallest one of those 3 silver leghorns.

 

[BlueBaby]

@The Moonshiner These are the moonys from the September hatch of those BGDs.

 

[McChooky]

If she's small the other chickens could be picking on her and yanking her tail feathers out.I would think you've noticed this though so she may not be eating as much as the rest.Are they chasing her away from food and water?