Chickens Path
When there’s so much snow on the ground, our chickens spend a lot of time hanging out inside our house. But when the snow is so deep, we have to shovel the snow to create a path for them to walk.
Indoor Dust Bath
Some of our chickens enjoy the “indoor dust-bathing simulator.” Since there’s too much snow outside, they decided to take a towel-bath, simulating a dust-bath. Sophie and Amy were working out hard scratching and rolling around on the bath-towels we put on the benches. It’s just like a treadmill for the humans.
Staying Warm
In the cold winter, our chicks like to come inside the house to stay warm. Some of them like to hang out in front of the wood stove to warm up. Shantie and Sophie spent quite bit of time at the same spot preening and soaking in the heat from the wood stove.
Molting Season
Most of our chickens are going through molting lately. Their molting season can range between August and January. This is the birds shed their old feathers and regrow new feathers. Molting consumes a lot of protein, and the hens stop laying eggs when they are molting. Kiki, the Barred Rock hen, is going through her…
Pippi Kissing Leo
We see Leo and the new chick Pippi together quite often lately. Seems like they are going steady now. Today, I saw them together inside the house. Pippi was preening Leo, but it looked as if they were kissing. What a sweet moment!
Happy pullets on a tree branch
I don’t have much to add here. This was the scene in the morning, soon after the five youngsters came out of the coop.
Integrating new pullets into the flock
Despite our best efforts, we seem to lose one to two chickens per year to illness or predators, so we’ve been on a schedule of about three baby chicks every second year, and this year we got the five chicks described in previous posts, after an unusually high loss rate in spring and early summer….
Missing Chicken
One of our sweet Ameraucana hens, Kumo, was missing from the coop for a couple of days. Peter and I realized that something was wrong. We searched all over our property, under the trees, in the bushes, etc. Peter finally found clusters of her feathers in the front yard. We realized that she was killed…
Pippi with the Baby Chicks
A few days passed since Pippi came to our place. For the first couple of days, she was staying away from the rest of the flock. She was mainly following me around in the backyard, and to the studio because she was lonely. Today, I saw her on the bench with other baby chicks. Seems…