Mastodawn

It is March 20th and it is 104°F in my chicken coop.

Not cool. Literally.

Happy 1st birthday to my sweetie birds! They got to spend most of the day out in the yard foraging for whatever green grass they could find and bugs. Hopefully the yard will break dormancy soon and the foraging will improve.

Some freezing rain started to fall though so had to lure them back to their covered coop run for the rest of the afternoon. Gave them a couple collard green leaves to have something to demolish and in this pic they are enthusiastically gobbling up dried soldier fly larve....their favorite! They'll get some defrosted strawberries from last years harvest for their special birthday pm snack.

They've been doing a bang up job of keeping us supplied with eggs, even during the winter. They slowed down but never completely stopped laying. 😮

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AO Smith Mar 1

Our current rooster is very big and so pretty. But also very mean. He does watch out for the hens, though, which is in his favor but he is definitely the meanest roo we've had here.

#rooster #chickens #ChickensofMastodon

Colin Mar 1

Grace has been laying lots of eggs when we’ve been away xD

(Yes we had a friend check on her a few times too, and we have a camera feed of the coop too)
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sadedoes Feb 23

The best part of my work day so far (WFH alone today) has been going out to feed their #Chookesties and see that our Baby (mini wyandotte) has laid an egg after months of being on strike.

And also enjoying all the bulbs peeking out and so many crocuses filling the garden with color.

#KeepingChickens #ChickenKeeping #ChickensOfMastodon #KippenToot #Chookingham #ChickenFlock #bloomscrolling #crocuses

Stephen Feb 20

#windowfriday #chickensofmastodon #chickensofpixelfed #roostersofmastodon #roostersofpixelfed

Stephen Feb 17

#backyardchickens #chickensofmastodon #chickensofpixelfed
Chicken house in winter.

~meoralis~Feb 16

#Chicken update! 🐔 Jette, the Stella murderer, is being a right bitch to the others as well, trying to assert her dominance by pecking them bloody. So, I'm keeping her separate during the day and in a cardboard box in the shed at night to give Henna and Cleo a break. (The elder Henna is still a bit weak after her moult, though she gave Jette hell when I tried reintroducing them on Saturday after a week of semi-separation. Cleo's still too small to fight back.)

But since Jette's the only #hen laying at the moment, I suppose I'll have to cut her some slack for her pea brain. As you can see, they still seek each other out. It started snowing heavily again today, so instead of spreading out in the garden and avoiding each other, they'd probably just huddle in the coop all day ... where the bloodlust runs high.

We're considering adding two more #chickens to the group, hoping more birds might dilute the stress, but it's a lengthy process, and we're not sure it'll actually help. 🫤 In the meantime, I've ordered some anti-peck spray. Maybe that'll sort out Jette's anger management issues. 🤞

I only wanted a few eggs, not a bloody soap opera in my back garden. 😭

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