It was a really joyous time when we found our first eggs in late November. First just two or three of the girls were laying eggs, then finally after a week or week in a half we were consistently getting five to six eggs. We now are selling our excess eggs, which is fun.
I have also begun to try to ferment my chicken feed as well. Yes, I have read that it makes the food easier to digest for the hens. On top of their feed I have also been making them a "warm meal" through the very cold days. Sometimes this is a pumpkin which was gifted to us by people, or a cooked yam or sweet potato, and sometimes even oatmeal with a few apple slices or cubes.
Thus is the life of a crazy chicken lady.
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As the next few months go forward I will talk more about the feed and raising this little flock of feathered personalities. They each do have personalities. Blackie was suppose to be a barred rock, by she obviously isn't. I'm not exactly sure what kind of chicken she is, but her feathers have a very pretty greenish and blueish tinge in the sunlight. She is a friendly little thing that sometimes gets lost in the shuffle of the barred rocks. Here she is eating oatmeal, apples, and a favorite treat... cranberries.
Here they are eating a mixture of quinoa, millet, and another grain, lightly cooked and sprinkled with raw hemp seed/hearts.
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