Category: Chickens

First Snow

This Friday morning it looks like a long trek to the chicken coop, it's back

The snow is a little early this year, usually don’t get any of this until around Thanksgiving.  Glad that I got the vegetable (more or less) cleaned up for the winter. Good day to curl up in front of the fire with Alice Feeney’s, Sometimes I Lie.

From the Old Farmer’s Almanac:

NOVEMBER 2017: temperature 39° (1° below avg.); precipitation 1.5″ (avg.); Nov 1-11: Showers, mild north; periods of rain and snow south; Nov 12-17: Sunny, cool; Nov 18-23: Rain and snow showers, then sunny, mild; Nov 24-30: Showers, then snowy periods, very cold.

Fresh Eggs Daily

 

Fresh Eggs DailyOn Sunday one of my chickens started laying eggs.  Since then I have gotten an additional six eggs. Very small eggs, they will get bigger as the chickens continue to mature.

It takes 26 hours for a chicken to create an egg, with six chickens I am thinking I’ll get a little over a dozen eggs a week.  Generally, one can expect an egg every other day, as the days grow shorter, chickens tend to produce fewer eggs.  Also as a chicken ages, it’s ability to produce eggs decreases.