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).
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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).
Would LOVE to win some chicken feed! If you have a cool-weather give-away, put me down for that too….my chickens don't like this HEAT!!! :)
Love your blog and follow you on facebook. I would love to win the 50 lb bag of Nutrina Feed and I'm sure my girls would love it, too. :) Subscribed by email: sselby1958@vtc.net
Adore my chickens, and I'm always here trying to learn more about them. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks for all the info in your blogs and all the giveaways. My pullets have just started laying and it would be nice to reward them with a bag of feed! lol
Love it!! Thanks for the contest!!