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After so many months of soggy weather, spring has sprung here on the Redwood Coast, so I replaced the old nasty straw bale in the chicken yard with a brand new one. The girls are enthralled -- it needs lots of scratching, pecking and pooping-upon to make it livable.

Ohhh, man, kurby, that's heartbreaking!🥺😢 I'm so sorry you lost several of your flock especially when you're trying so hard to protect and heal them, and the elements are against you. I feel your frustration, we've been clobbered with one atmospheric river storm after another since January (I...

Wheeee! Party time! 😁 They're so much fun, and easy to please...

"Scram!!! We're busted!" 😄😆😂

It's been so wet and gloomy the past several weeks with one atmospheric river after another pouring down rain, plus gusty winds and hail storms, my 8 hens have been hunkered down under the coop and covered run with only a few rainless spells to chicken-around outside. I felt bad for them, only...

@TropicalBabies, uhh, gee, could y'all please keep some of the pineapple expresses to yourselves for a few days, so California can come up for air a little bit? 😉 😲 The rain's been relentless, especially in places that really aren't good at handling so much at once (since they're usually so dry...

Today we actually saw the sun! (Briefly.) The latest atmospheric river "only" dumped another ~3" of rain on all the over-saturated ground; drizzle let up for the afternoon, so it was the pullets' first chance in many days to be out & about their chickening business without getting soaked. It...

My two Eggers loved earthworms when they were chicks and first allowed to explore outside! But over time I guess they got jaded or picky 🙄, and also "turn their beaks up" 😄at worms. The older pullets are pretty much, "Meh" about worms. But sowbugs, spiders on the wire fence, or swarms of...

Ahhhh, the mental visual on this!!! :lauShameless little cannibals!

Always looking for more fun "run clutter" things to entertain the girls, especially when the weather's been so very wet & gloomy lately and they've been sheltering under the tarp-covered area and under the coop a lot. We finally had a break in the relentless rainstorms and the girls were out &...

Finally, a day without rain! Flood waters are receding from our neighboring towns and roadways, but the Weather Service says another big system moves in tomorrow afternoon (sigh). I spent these precious rain-free daylight hours weeding furiously while tossing soggy tennis balls for the dogs...

Oh, man, you're going through quite the siege lately! Hope you can heal up quickly and completely very soon!

😲 Those rascals were sneaking under a tarp to lay all those eggs? I'd never think to look in a spot like that. Guess I have a long way to go to achieve "chicken brain"...😉😆

I'm sure you can scold some sense into those silly girls! 😉 :lau But seriously - 30 EGGS, from 4 girls? Ladies, PLEASE!

Wow, you folks are really in for it!!! Reading this, plus all the folks facing blizzard/heavy snow conditions around the country, I'm grateful we're just getting very wet. Hope & pray you and everyone else (people and critters alike) come through unscathed.😟

The rainy season is certainly bringing its challenges! We had another 1.32" the past two days, and after all the previous rains the ground is saturated. The clear plastic tarp over their run is helping (top & halfway down the sides) but moisture is seeping in from underneath. (My first winter...

Wow, Legs is growing up to be gorgeous! He makes a mighty big lap bird already. So great that he likes hanging out with you like this!

Very nice! They're obviously loving the varied-height roosts, great touch!

I think you achieved that in record time, congratulations! :yesss:😁

Lately some, and last night ALL 8 (!) of my girls haven't gone into the coop at dark; I find them roosting on top of the nest box lid, pressed up against the hardware cloth window as close to their flockmates inside as they can get. Tedious going out there every night and grabbing dark-drunk...