There's just not much to report on during the winter.
Other than trying to keep everyone alive.
Feeding and watering the birds during the winter months can be brutal, but at the same time, I really want to make sure they are comfortable out there.
Every winter the egg production slows way down.
This season (late 2020) seemed a little odd to us. Our egg production was down early in the season.
And over the last couple of months, our egg production was essentially non-existent.
I'd get one or two eggs every few days.
Yeah, it was...weird.
We have about 30 birds.
So here's the thing. We had like 5 roosters.
WAY TOO MANY.
Too many for the number of hens we have.
It was stressing them out.
So we culled a few of them to try to even things out.
That was a few days ago.
And I'm not kidding you guys.
I GASPED OUT LOUD when I went to feed/water the chickens today and saw a PILE of eggs.
Turns out it was like 25.
A few were cracked and had to be thrown out.
But come ON, people.
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| These are some gorgeous eggs We will be turning our clocks forward this coming weekend (March 14) so we will get more daylight. This is also the chickens "clock" if you will. I will be interested to see what we max out at. I remember there were some days when we were topping out at like 20 - 24 eggs per day. It was tough to keep up! But it's also nice to know that some of my older hens seem to be laying still. Big Red was also being broody! On another note, Ava and I stopped at Runnings the other day to pick up more chicken feed. AND IT'S BABY CHICK TIME!! We didn't bring any baby chicks home, since we are not ready for that right now, but MAN they are CUTE! I promised Ava I'd get our bin ready in the basement and get ourselves set up and we can go back and pick up a few more...it's so hard not to get new chicks each year! |
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