38° and clear with 67% humidity (yay!) at 2:00 A.M. High today of 71°. Chicken delights will be oatmeal and wheat grass.
Someone really decorated their car!
I sat down in a pen to secure some bird netting. One of our EEs came over to see what I was doing. I was sitting next to a roost and she sat down on the roost to watch me working for a while, so I started talking quietly to her, the usual stuff, what a pretty hen and good girl she is, and so on...
This is a good point! You reminded me: we also give them warm cooked oatmeal on cold mornings (we make it for ourselves and make extra for the chickens).
They loooove oatmeal. They put their whole faces in it to eat it, then they spend the rest of the morning trying to wipe the oatmeal off...
That's good advice. Don't let one hoarder house spawn more hoarder houses!
That won't happen here. I can't have a lot of stuff in my house. It makes me feel suffocated, like everything's pressing in on me. It gives me the heebie-jeebies. It doesn't bother me when I'm in other peoples' homes...
Took a break over Thanksgiving but we're still working on the house.
We cleaned out the kitchen pantry which was basically just throwing out a lot of old food. We found mice droppings on the floor at the back of the pantry, although we didn't see any evidence that mice had been in any of the...
You'll know when they're molting because it will look like a feather pillow exploded in your coop and run, and the hens will look scraggly. It's a good time to feed them extra protein. We give them grubs, tuna, salmon, beef, and sardines (not all at once, hahaha).