Hello Garden Gals & Guys!! It’s been a while since I talked about my chickens, so I thought I would give you a little update on how they are doing. I can’t believe March marks the one-year anniversary of adding chickens to the Fat Earth Backyard Farm!
It has been pretty smooth sailing with no real issues. The only problem I had was a few weeks ago when we had some pretty cold weather and snow. My chickens do NOT like the snow. I would open the coop to let them out and they just stared at me. There was barely an inch or two on the ground. Well, that led to them being bored, despite me giving them chicken toys to play with…which led to Andromeda pecking the butt feathers off the other three hens. This is a picture of one of my hens’ butt:
Yes, I freaked out. I quickly did some research and saw that it could be lice or mites. While I was sitting outside researching on my phone, I happened to look up and saw Andromeda pecking at one of the hens’ butts. Gotcha! So it wasn’t lice or mites (which I did check them for just to be safe).
So, I got them some dried meal worms and while they were doing this:
I'm so happy for you! The eggs are a really nice treat and so much better than what you can buy at the store. Keep growing my friend.
Thank you, Blake!! You are my biggest cheerleader!!
Maybe you might want to add a recipe page to yourblog. That photo looks delicious and I wouldn't mind the recipe to that.
Glad your chickens are ok.
We are having a major blizzard here in MA but spring isn't far away.
So one of your of your chickens got henpecked in the booty. Sounds like you have a freaky deaky in the group…
Dad, 3 of them did. It happens when they get bored. LOL. You are so funny!