What did you do with your flock today?

[TeresaW]

Um, scooped poop.

 

[Rebechenson75]

Thank you all for your love. I'm doing pretty good now. I have a rogue gallstone left from when my gallbladder was removed a few years ago. It was stuck.

 

[Jenbirdee]

Um, scooped poop.

always

 

[Jenbirdee]

I’ve been putting my birds to work with controlled grazing in some areas of the yard that have weeds growing & apparently the chickens like to eat the creeping Charlie and I am so happy about it

 

[PopoMyers]

Very naughty girls! My lot ate all my figs - little buggers! Turns out Clara can climb...
I know I shouldn't complain but I'm getting sick of sorting and preparing apples. We've had a bumper year and only got half the apples off one tree so far.

Bring your apples over. I'll press them for you into cider.

 

[PopoMyers]

Such naughty chickens you and @PopoMyers have! I stopped planting gardens because my dogs always destroy what lives thru the hellish summers…but my chickens are running rogue in the backyard these days like naughty criminals so they’re in trouble now because they keep pooping all over my patio table!

We had a nasty round of mites this week that I’m battling like crazy…never a dull moment in chicken land!

Aria brought in Elinor because she’s been broody and thought it was hilarious how big she is in comparison to the bantam pullet she’s holding so I had to share

And the last picture is of some unsanctioned babies that hatched recently from my d’Anver pen

Hope you’re all well!

I hate mites! May you win the war soon! I finally removed the coop wall panels and used permethrin and they haven't come back reattached the wall panels with a gap between the support wood and them.

 

[PopoMyers]

Refilled feeders, cleaned poop and added a thick layer of shavings to the coop. Mixed in some 30% protein feed for the molting girls. Yesterday, strung aviary netting under all the large branches and around the trunk of the apple tree escape ladder. No explorers in the garden today. I don't think I have to clip wings. When I did Dora's awhile back, she quit laying for several days, from the stress of it all. Now the earwigs are making holes in everything.

 

[Smokerbill]

I went around the entire foundation of the house, pulled up the weeds and gave the girls two 5 gallon buckets full of greenery. I bet I get an above average egg count tomorrow.

 

[Jenbirdee]

I went around the entire foundation of the house, pulled up the weeds and gave the girls two 5 gallon buckets full of greenery. I bet I get an above average egg count tomorrow.

that was so nice of you! I’ve been letting my chickens into the “common area” to pick their own weeds, lol. they are eating all the creeping charlie! good chicks

 

[Shetland lover]

Bring your apples over. I'll press them for you into cider.

Thank you! If only I could!
I've been juicing some and pasturising it in my instant pot, freezing, bottling and drying a lot too. This year is the fruiting year for our Pitmaston apple tree, and, boy has it fruited! It's my favourite flavoured apple - a definite pineapple taste which is sweet and tangy with a crisp flesh. They're only small(ish) and fruit biennially but I can't be without it.
It's such a shame none of my chickens like apple - unless it's in a pie, of course