Amazing

I can not believe they are still laying so well.  This is what I found when we came home from Christmas in WV.  One days lay...

We Have a New Layer....

...and she lays blue eggs!

 

 

Fun Time With The Girls and Ellis

I can always, always count on Ellis to help me with the girls.  He loves them as much as I do.  I think he needs a chicken or two.  I've been trying to give them some different things so they can build up an extra thick layer of fat to keep them warm during the winter.  They are not to keen on noodles.

But they do love to scratch.  I'm thinking this spring the plants are going to need to toughen up to survive.  Sunny love to back up against the tree and scratch right at the base.

Crispy just love a good run around the yard.

Keithetta doesn't look like she needs anything else to eat.  She really isn't that big just fluffing.

Love those feathers.

Ethel is the hardest one to catch.

Pappy sure won't want this happening in the spring.

They have figured out where the treats come from.

 Dixie and Crispy

Sunny's favorite spot to scratch...right in the middle of the hosta bed.

Ethel and Esthel just hanging out together.

Inez looking foe seeds.

Dory just blending in.

EffieGrace is on guard duty.

 

Ellis even knows where the chicken treats are.

And they come running to be the first.

I got this seed Christmas tree for Christmas from Doodles and Noodles.  I hung it on the ladder to give them something fun to do.  They are a little scared of it.  But in time they will love it I am sure.

Love, Love, Love this!



 

Chicken Helpers and Bumblefoot

Two chicken assistants today to help check the bottoms of the girls feet for any foot pad dermatitis or bumblefoot.  I have been closely watching for them to be limping.   

Ellis was our chicken wrangler/catcher.  Cassie was the holder.  And I was the checker.

And this is what I was looking for.  Shoot!  And I thought I was doing everything to prevent this.  Now to read all I can as to how to get her well.  She still has no limp or anything.  And wouldn't you know it would be Susie, the one with the split beak!

This boy loves to play with my chickens! 

He has them jumping and eating out of his hands...and sneaking it out of the bowl.