Category: Farming

  • The ‘new’ hens and egg news

    We got the ‘new’ hens on Saturday, 3 seem to be a mix of Aracauna-ish and Rhode Island Red –though are supposedly all brown egg layers, and then we have 6 Rhode Island Reds. The man set aside 9 hens for us, not the 7 we had said, so we ended up with 2 more,…

  • Gaining hennies

    Our hennies haven’t been laying since the end of November. I’m hoping they’ll start laying soon. Recent picture of the Wyandottes. They are looking like they are ready to lay … I have other news about eggs though. We’ve been getting eggs from the meat store a few miles up the road, which carries mostly…

  • Hot Hennie Update

    Our hennies egg production has picked up a bit the last few weeks. I have tried to keep them in order, get counts to put up here and all that, but … last week and over the weekend I’ve not been my best, so some things slide. FWIW. The biggest thing to note though is…

  • Hens and dog again

    I just moved the Leghorn pen, the slow way, inch by inch, pull this side, pull that side, straighten that part, pull again … etc. I checked for eggs there this morning, much earlier, and noticed dirt next to the pen, and a hole right there. There were no eggs in the pen. Victoria had…

  • Rainy Monday

    Frank is out of town today. He’s got my cold now too, just the headcold part so far. He doesn’t sound so good over the phone. He says he’s feeling OK though. I, for myself, am not feeling that bad, but I had another bad night last night, that’s three in a row. It’s this…

  • Moving the pen caused loss

    Yesterday I moved the Leghorn pen, to give them some fresher grass, as well as to collect the five eggs they’d laid. For some reason without a box they all lay in a different spot, so the eggs are not in a pile or even close to one another, but all spread out. The pen…

  • Hennie Pennie Talk

    I haven’t written about my Hennie Pennies for awhile, they deserve a few words. They didn’t lay over Winter, that’s alright. They were slow in getting to the laying part of it this Spring though, but did do it. The Leghorn hens are old, for hens. We got them in February 2003, they hatched in…

  • Exciting day

    Today our hens laid! As far as we know, three today. It’s raining quite heavily now, frequent lightening, so we haven’t checked the hens in awhile. 🙂 Hawklady, one the Leghorns, then one of the Wyandottes laid. So we have a green, white, and brown each. My favorite combination! I didn’t see who laid the…

  • Breezy to Gusty

    Now that it’s later … it’s now8:30 am … the forecast has changed and it’s about 40-degrees even … instead of the 8-degrees higher it was said to supposed to be about now a couple of hours ago. 😉 Weather changes … changes … 🙂 Yesterday the accuweather forecast for Tuesday, today, said that the…

  • Hens, Lights, and ears

    Well it’ s rather wet and dreary and chilly again today. Yesterday the hennies gave me a white egg, then three brown eggs, and that was it. Today it was exactly opposite. First a brown egg, then three white eggs, and nothing more so far. It’s funny to look at the eggs in their prospective…

  • Egg Counts moved to own page

    Yesterday I began a new page with the egg counts. See it here . It’s a work in progress. The first page is a list of all pages with counts, and I have them named by month, so all egg counts are on monthly grouped pages, with the format, currently, similar to how I put…

  • Eggs for Feb 23 2005

    Today we have, at this point: 4:57 PM, 8 eggs. Today we got a green egg, yesterday we did not. We got our biggest count yesterday of the year without the contribution of Hawklady. So today she has laid, an additional Leghorn has laid, as well as 5 others as we had yesterday (whether or…

  • Eggs for Feb 22 2005

    Eggs for 2-22-2005 9:00 AM – 1 Brown 9:15 AM – 1 White 9:30 AM – 2 White 11:40 AM- 3 Brown PM – 1 White PM – 1 Brown 4:30 PM – 1 White (freshly just laid!) Order gotten in: BWWWBBBWB Total: 10 4:40pm Update: We have 10 eggs so far today. That’s our…

  • Eggs for Feb 21 2005

    Eggs for 2-21-2005 8:30 AM – 2 Brown 9:30 AM – 2 White 10:15 AM – 1 White, 1 Brown PM – 1 White 4:45 PM – 1 Brown (nice and warm!) Gotten in this order: BBWWWBWB Total Thus Far: 8 It’s an overcast/foggy/rainy day. It’s not raining right now though. The egg production has…

  • Eggs for Sunday – The Lord’s Day Feb 20 2005

    The Lord’s Day Eggs for 2-20-2005 8:30 AM – 1 Brown, 1 White 11:00 AM – 1 White PM – 2 Brown, 1 Green, 1 White Gotten in this order: BWWBGBW Total: 7

  • Eggs for Feb 19 2005

    Eggs for 2-19-2005 1 Green 3 Brown 3 White gotten through the day in this order: G B B W W W B Total: 7

  • Eggs for Feb 18 2005

    Eggs for 2-18-2005 9:30 AM – 1 Brown, 1 White 11:00 AM – 2 Brown 12:15 PM – 1 Brown 1:30 PM – 1 Brown, 1 White 3:40 PM – 1 White Total Thus Far: 8 It was cold last night, below freezing for the first time in awhile. The hens are laying fine today…

  • Eggs for Feb 17 2005

    Eggs for 2-17-2005 9:30 AM – 2 Brown 11:30 AM – 1 White 12:oo PM – 1 Green 1:00 PM – 1 Brown Total Thus Far: 5 Update: 12:10 PM: I went out to check for eggs and found Hawklady in the A-Frame Nest Box. She was in a laying position, close to actuall dropping…

  • Eggs for Feb 16 2005

    2-16-2005 Egg Count: 6:00 AM – 1 Brown (the hens and me were up before sunrise and so I got this one nice and warm) 8:00 AM – 2 Brown, 1 Green (1 brown was very warm, the other two were cooling down) during the PM – 1 White, 2 Brown Total Thus Far: 7…

  • Eggs for Feb 15 2005

    2-15-2005 Egg Count: 9:00 AM – 1 White 11:30 AM – 2 Brown (both not warm when gotten) PM – 1 Brown Total: 4 I went out to check for eggs at 8am today. We had an egg right before that the day before. I didn’t think there’d be one that early today, not from…