Shortly after posting several of the other sisters in that flock began to follow suit. There are feathers ALL OVER the yard lol. Looks like was a pillow fight. Everyone is grumpy now. Ha! I scrambled up a pile of scrambled eggs with shells crushed in for the crowd. Extra protein for my girls 😉...
Poor girl! I have one who lost her last tail feather and is coming close to yours in the patchy department lol she's so small. Is it normal for the others to seem a tad grumpier with her?
I mix up my feed in shallow trays with ACV and water/or electrolytes in the summer. Soak overnight then pour it out or just leave it, they lick that clean! I always have one dry feeder available but they really prefer the wet mash.
That was my thinking once I saw his size. This is a back yard coop that sits by the woods so I'll continue doing regular snake sweeps! I've dispatched the ones I've seen as needed (we have copperheads here in NC.... ) and have all ideas I'll see another.
I interrupted a 4ft black snake stealing a golf ball this morning. He's been coming around over the last 6 months or so in the evenings and usually left the area once we came around but since I and the chickens started a team effort to kill/eat the mice, he just have decided eggs would be a...