I’ve been getting so many inquiries about the girls (hens) lately that I thought I better give you a chicken update. 🙂 Here in Ohio we get a wonderful change of seasons, for Fall the leaves on the trees change color and fall to the ground, the fields turn golden and we have warm days and cool nights. This is also the time for molting. Molting you ask? Yep Molting! That’s when you see half naked chickens running around in the chicken yard. They are ashamed of how they look so you will see them running out of the picture frame like in the above shot (top left), lol.
This is poor JoJo, she is usually so beautiful but right now she is missing half of her feathers, including all of her tail feathers.. During molting a whole lot of their feathers fall out and beautiful new ones come in. It looks painful and I try not to pick them up if I don’t have to.
When their new feathers poke through the skin they have a little waxy cap on the end that they pick off and leave laying everywhere. Now doesn’t that look painful! Kinda makes me ashamed I complain about shaving my legs.
The entire chicken yard is covered in feathers, it looks like a real massacre has happen here. Just imagine trying to rake feathers into a pile to clean up with a slight breeze blowing, lol.
Egg productions stops for the chickens that are molting since they are using all of their energy to make new feathers. I hardly blame them for taking a break.
Only half of the flock is on breaks so we are still getting the most delicious fresh eggs. MMMM
While we are on the subject of eggs, did you know they come in all colors, sizes and shapes, lol. Yep, they are not all uniform in size like in those cartons at the store. Check out the brown oblong one in the photo above. It is so long the lid on the egg carton will not shut over it.. It is probably a double yoker, bonus!
Well that is what is happening right outside my door.
Thanks for stopping by. . . . .
Huge Hugs,
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