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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Happy New Year everyone! Sorry I am late saying that. I rung in the new year at work and viral illness is running rampant. 🤢😷 Definitely zero fun. Influenza is really virulent this year and there have even been some child deaths from it in my state. That in addition to the bounty of other...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Chicken chores in the winter is a drag. I am grateful my husband takes the brunt of most of the chicken chores during the winter. I help when I am off work but he works hard and does the majority.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Its probably more likely that the pullets have become sexually mature and are instinctually receptive to mating to fertilize their eggs. They squat and the rooster responds by mounting them. However I have seen roosters run down hens who weren’t actively laying so they will try to mount hens...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Eggs usually come within a month of a pullet's comb starting to redden from my experience. :)
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I have noticed that if I spend more time handling my Leghorns as chicks they are more friendly. The first set of chicks this winter in the building that I handled a lot while they were being brooded in the house are still very friendly and always run to my hand. But the unsocialized ones are...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    And here is the latest group of chicks all dried and fluffy. 10/11 eggs that made it to lockdown hatched. 🐣
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Sharing updated pics of the Buff pullet. I have the Red Leghorn rooster from MM over her. Hopefully the crossing will improve tail angle and type on the Red project.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    With a calculator? 😆 But girl math is like when you need a can of hairspray for $20, but you get free shipping if you spend $50 so you add $30 worth of stuff your cart you really don't need, just to save $6.99 on shipping. Guilty as charged.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Agreed, and same. Too much trauma and aggravation to look back. Gotta keep our hands to the plow and keep looking ahead. I love horses and would love to learn to ride. My husband and I want to get a draft horse or a mule later on once we get more serious about homesteading and have more land.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    The Brown Leghorn hens in with the Silver Leghorn cockerel laid a couple eggs today. They literally laid one egg and then nothing after we put him in there a couple of weeks or so ago. The eggs we got from them today were tiny so we are eating those. Hopefully we will have some of those for...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    That pitchfork may come in handy. My husband would be suspicious if I asked for one of those because I watch a lot of crime documentaries. 😆
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I think my husband gets more handsome as he ages. The silver coming into his beard is 😍. Being 20 is all good when you are 20. But maturing and embracing your age is all good too. Fighting it doesn’t change anything. Taking care of the body you have and staying active so you feel better and...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Oh so you prefer the botox, frozen forehead, and fillers look? 😆
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    @BlueBaby I wouldn’t go back to my 20s and beyond for sure. It was nothing but a struggle then, an uphill battle it felt like most of the time. I am content in my 30’s. I have decided to age gracefully and naturally the way the good Lord intended. At 36 I have a few grays and I think they...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Exactly. Aging is inevitable and not a bad thing. It’s a masterpiece is what it is. 😆
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