Tonight's CONFESSION:
I've gone chicken sheeeett crazy.
I raise chickens
&
I live in the city.
The city I live in isn't a large one mind you, and My homestead in the city sets on one lot. Although space is limited I still manage to keep enough hens to have fresh eggs every morning!
I have seven hens.
Of my seven hens:
two are barred rock,
two are lavender orphingtons,
one is a jubilee orphington,
and the other two ......I'm not sure about!
I think one is a production red (she is my matriarch of the flock) and the other is a buff of some sort. I will snap some photos of them soon enough.
Let me introduce you to the girls:
(Photos coming soon)
I started off with only four, and acquired the other three along the way.
Having hens has been an amazing adventure.
I love hearing them lay in the morning and treating them to the scrapes from my kitchen. It actually helps me eat more produce and keep a healthier diet. Haha because I'm giddy about tossing them my excess mustard greens or buying an extra $2.00 head of purple cabbage.
This spring the girls and I went through baby fever!
My coop is small, it's purpose is only to provide shelter from rain, hold a roost for my girls and give them a nice cozy place to deposit their eggs. The coop has a lovely collection nesting box and I can access the eggs by simply lifting the nest box lid and scooping them up.
It only has one nesting box and this hasn't been a problem up until now but the girls went Broody and started hogging and buddy sitting in it and the layer girls would sit there and scream. Hah it was like they had diviy up time slots and they were screaming times up!!!
I felt almost at falt see I had three ceramic eggs in the box, my little trick to keeping fresh eggs coming throughout the winter months! I know this encouraged them into their broodiness and that i should have removed them sooner.
But I loved this thought.
Random question:
What is your favorite breed of chicken?
Or
What's your favorite chicken name?
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