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Category / Health
January 5, 2016
by Naomi Gray

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.  

Tag: Amy, Sophie
Category: Fun activities, Health
Molting Chicken
October 19, 2015
by Naomi Gray

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…

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