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September 18, 2014

New Arrivals







So we've added a few additions to our little farm...twelve new ladies moved in last Saturday.  Our Guinea fowl flock keeps increasing, but, sadly, our chickens have been on the decline.  Many of them are getting old and only lay an egg every so often, if any at all.  Every spring we hope that the clutch of eggs that our one broody mama sits on will produce chicks, but, alas, nothing ever comes of her weeks of sitting.  Poor old Chanticleer the Rooster, I don't think he realizes that he's a rooster. Since being unable to produce our own chicks, when we heard that the owner of our local feed store had twelve one-year-old hens for sale, we bought them all. They seem to be settling in quite nicely, however, a few of them, having never been outside, stayed in the barn all day, not daring to come out of their little chicken door.  I've noticed, though,  that they are now becoming curious and are starting to wander outside into the pen, pecking at the bugs they find crawling on the ground and dusting themselves in the warm sun.  Since chicken eggs have been such a commodity, we have been quite excited about collecting eggs daily.  We have already gathered more eggs than we would have in a month's time.  Although we have been thankful for the Guinea hen eggs that have been abundant this summer, they are quite small, and it's just so satisifying to crack open a large, farm-fresh, chicken egg for breakfast.  I'm happy we welcomed these twelve new ladies onto the farm.  (Maybe we should now consider finding a new rooster.)

Thanks to my daughter for photographing the flock.


5 comments:

  1. They look gorgeous and how lovely to have lots of eggs now. And it must be great for the chickens to be enjoying their new home and exploring outdoors too.

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  2. How wonderful, they look like beautiful ladies :). Hope they lay for a while before it gets cold.

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  3. I know how frustrating it can be to have chickens, but no eggs. Our flock is down to 5 and I haven't seen an egg in 2 weeks and before that it was about 2 per week. They still make me smile though.

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  4. What lovely new photos. Happy new hens. We were offered some pretty ones for Ahmad's coop but sadly there is too much disruptive building going to be happening soon and so we'll wait a little so they can arrive to a more peaceful start to their new home.
    Happy egg collecting.
    debx

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  5. Those eggs are beautiful! I bet they make the best custard! :)

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