pastured chickens
without news from us ... just been awfully busy ... but plenty of good news .... YES ... we have eggs ... and I will post pictures of them tomorrow ...
In the meantime here are some pictures :
I had ordered "girls only" but got a rooster in the lot :
Two of the chickens have name, this is Josephine
Here Josephine again with Germaine
Growing up good ... and hopefully laying very soon ....
The Girls are doing great, the first flock is already 12 weeks old ... and no pressure here but every day I remind them that eggs production is around the corner !!!!
The colors of the pictures are really off but they were either in the shade or running away !!! .... They totally not collaborated for this shooting session !!!!
Relaxing under the mandarines !!!
The little sisters .... they are 5 weeks old, they have been pastured for over 2 weeks already. I waited much longer with the first flock before letting them run around (books usually say 4 weeks) but talking with experts I started to let them out earlier and I think they are doing much better ...
Having chickens is the best pest control system ... They are scratching all the time ... Usually pastured chickens get 15 % of their diet from bugs/green but I am sure it must be more ....
No pictures of the Leghorn Light Brown, they are so shy that it is impossible to get pictures. They are also very aggressive with each other and I am not sure I will keep on getting them. I will see how the eggs production goes.
They are 5 weeks old, very small birds compare to the Dominiques or the Rhode Islands, very shy too. Almost impossible to take a decent pix of them ... they keep on running away from me. Very pretty birds ...
It has been a while since the last picutes it has been very busy around here ... well as you can see on the pix the Dominiques and the Rhode Island Red are doing very well, they are now 10 weeks old ....
Breakfast time ...
Dominique ....
Daily work ....
I took those pictures a few days ago when they were just 10 days old.
It took the previous flock a good two weeks to do the same thing .... !!!!
Another queen of the water cooler .....
They are already jumping out of the pool ... but they don't know how to get back in !!! .... When one is in trouble he will call for help with this very loud cry and all the others are totally quiet ....
Visiting .....
