No pictures to post with this entry. It has been a good while since I have posted something to this blog of mine. The chickens continue to lay eggs during these darker months, some days 7-9 and then on others up to 12. No artificial lighting is being used. Pearly- one of the Buffs continues to run and greet me whenever I open the coop door or when the gang is allowed to free range, she will always come running and let me pick her up.
These chickens sure do eat the feed. They love the horse feed that has oats and molasses in it as well as some ground corn. That's their treat in the evening when they come back to the coop. I have noticed some of the Barreds are now roosting up in the rafters and not on the roosting perches provided. It makes for more clean up since the roosting perches have a 'landing pad' making clean up a breeze. These gals sure can mess up a coop pretty quick. 2 Weeks is about all it can go before a deep clean is in order for the coop and the dormant garden gets some fertilizer.
Reina the Saddlebred has been home and has presented challenges once she got back with the 'herd'. I continue to work with her and hope to have her in 'shape' in the Spring. The Winter weather here has been mild and very wet. The immediate pasture is a mud-hole. We have had VERY warm weather for the Winter.
The Spring Red-Golden Pheasants whose hatching I documented here earlier are all doing well. There are more males to females. Looks like I have another Yellow Golden and a couple of Splash (mix of Red and Yellow Golden) males to one hen. They will be separated in the early Spring and more than likely sold since that many male roosters can't co-exist together.
