Three Hens A'Laying!
I just finished cleaning my chicken coop since it was a nice day and I wanted to give them some fresh hay. Much cleaner in there. LOL
We were excited to find another egg nestled in the hay in a corner of the coop. :o) This girl doesn't know to go in the nesting bucket so will have to be taught by the others. (Nesting bucket = large bucket on it's side with straw in it. The hens go in there for privacy and leave their eggs for me.) They aren't interested in being Mommies yet as they don't "set" on their eggs. They simply drop them and leave them. The kids keep asking me if one of them decides to go "broody" and sit on a clutch of eggs if I will let them have their babies or take the eggs away......I think I will let them have them!
Colby was asking for it though and got it! He decided to go in the pen and pet the girls and thought Boss would leave him alone. First he got spurred in the legs (since he was also wearing shorts....duh Colby) then he got pecked in the cheek and on the wrist. Poor kid never learns. I was smart and when I went in there to pet the girls took the broom with me. LOL
Like one lady in my chicken group likes to say......"For every pot a rooster". :o)
The above pic is of Boss as a baby....way too cute to do away with. :o( I never would have thought he'd grow to be the ugly thing he is today.
I just finished cleaning my chicken coop since it was a nice day and I wanted to give them some fresh hay. Much cleaner in there. LOL
We were excited to find another egg nestled in the hay in a corner of the coop. :o) This girl doesn't know to go in the nesting bucket so will have to be taught by the others. (Nesting bucket = large bucket on it's side with straw in it. The hens go in there for privacy and leave their eggs for me.) They aren't interested in being Mommies yet as they don't "set" on their eggs. They simply drop them and leave them. The kids keep asking me if one of them decides to go "broody" and sit on a clutch of eggs if I will let them have their babies or take the eggs away......I think I will let them have them!
Colby was asking for it though and got it! He decided to go in the pen and pet the girls and thought Boss would leave him alone. First he got spurred in the legs (since he was also wearing shorts....duh Colby) then he got pecked in the cheek and on the wrist. Poor kid never learns. I was smart and when I went in there to pet the girls took the broom with me. LOL
Like one lady in my chicken group likes to say......"For every pot a rooster". :o)
The above pic is of Boss as a baby....way too cute to do away with. :o( I never would have thought he'd grow to be the ugly thing he is today.
