Diapers are just the beginning

Yea! We got four eggs in one day from our five chickens.
I think that the only one that is not laying (currently 24 weeks old) is our Silver Laced Wyandotte.
She’s pretty, but she’s still a freeloader.
Today, the pullets are eating some leftover melon that we got from a farmer. Two days ago they were snacking [...]

We are having the oddest weather on the Central Coast. Three days ago it rained. Four days ago I was wearing a sweater. Today, it is HOT. I hate that.

Chickens hate it more. Ziggy was kind enough to give us another egg today, but I understand that heat like this is disruptive to the egg [...]

Our first egg - the proverbial ‘golden’ egg.

Complements of our five month old Barred Rock Ziggy. She is also our most friendly chicken. It was a little more cute when she could only jump on my shoulder when I bent over. In the last couple of weeks she surprised me by jumping up on me [...]