The weathervane just isn’t the same without Brutus, but life goes on and we welcomed a few new flock members to Blazing Trails Farm this week.
Freida (White Silkie) is never happier than when she is raising chicks. Freida with two Olive Egger chicks.
Egg production is still excellent even while the girlz molt, but soon the shorter days of autumn will affect it and supplemental lighting in the coops will continue to stimulate the hormones that trigger egg-laying just as the sun does.
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By popular demand, I have made my Spruce the Coop Herbal Fusion available for sale on Etsy and in my webstore. Instructions for making it can be found here.
My Partridge Plymouth Rock pullets just began egg-laying and while they aren’t molting this year, they did enjoy the Molt Muffins that I made for the flockers who are molting, like Rachel, below (Bantam Cochin Frizzle).
Kathy Shea Mormino
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The weathervane just isn’t the same without Brutus, but life goes on and we welcomed a few new flock members to Blazing Trails Farm this week.
Freida (White Silkie) is never happier than when she is raising chicks. Freida with two Olive Egger chicks.
Egg production is still excellent even while the girlz molt, but soon the shorter days of autumn will affect it and supplemental lighting in the coops will continue to stimulate the hormones that trigger egg-laying just as the sun does.
By popular demand, I have made my Spruce the Coop Herbal Fusion available for sale on Etsy and in my webstore. Instructions for making it can be found here.
My Partridge Plymouth Rock pullets just began egg-laying and while they aren’t molting this year, they did enjoy the Molt Muffins that I made for the flockers who are molting, like Rachel, below (Bantam Cochin Frizzle).
love reading your blog..nutrena is the only food my chickens will eat, they LOVE IT..
Here chickie chickie. Got some great food for you.
I'd like to win for my ladies!! =)
hope to win
Kathy – I, too, loved to hatch in my incubators but gave it up because I just didn't know what to do with all the roosters! What do you do with them all?
Love your photos and expertise. Thanks