Well I have been gone awhile. Death in the family and had to go to Colorado. Close to 500 pages behind, so well, I just jumped ahead.
Unfortunately while we were gone, we lost our favorite chicken. The neighbors who were taking care of the animals couldnt find her one night and she was found dead the next day, next to the fence, her neck broken but uneaten. Not sure what killed her. We have raccoons, coyotes and the builder said he thought he saw a wild cat (bobcat?) but I would think any of those would have eaten her, so I am not sure what happened.
So we are down to 2 ladies, and we get only 1 egg a day . I guess we will be buying eggs this winter still. I hope to get more chicks in the spring. We are enlarging our coop/run and want to have 15 or so, with a run big enough that I don't need to let them free range if we are out of town for a week.