Moving Day

We have now moved the chickens from the brooder box to the chicken tractor. Of course, as soon as we did it the temp dropped, overnights were in the 30's, but the flock seems to have survived just fine. We will be moving the tractor to the pasture in the very near future, but right now the girls, the dog and the cat are all interested in just sitting and watching the chickens and their new environment. We also have thinned our flock to 13 total, which is about the max amount we wanted. Hopefully, when egg production starts that will mean about a dozen every 2-3 days.

Birds of a feather

When we purchased our chickens, we bought a variety pack of "layers" we were supposed to receive at least four or five different breeds of chickens. My thought was the girls could see various kinds of plumage as well as a different variety of eggs. As the feathers begin to replace the fuzz, we are starting to see some of the variety. Our most unique and easily identifiable chicken is the turken, you can easily pick him out because he has no feathers on his neck. We had to do some research to find out what he was exactly and hope we can identify some of the other breeds soon.

Little Jerry

This was a chicken that we ran across on Oahu, at the Turtle Bay Resort. He charged us while on the golf course. We refered to him as "Little Jerry" ever since...maybe Little Jerry retired to Hawaii after the show about nothing went off the air.