UPDATE! – CHICKENS

Though my garden season didn’t begin so smoothly, I can honestly say that the chickens have been fantastic. They are big girls now! I haven’t seen any eggs yet, though the alpha seems to be so advanced that we keep checking every day, even though they aren’t due for egg production for another month or so.

No, I haven’t painted the coop yet (but we bought the paint!). Yes, I’ve been lazy (the summers in Florida are a bitch!). But I don’t hear any complaints from the girls. They love rice spinach and have pretty much snubbed their nose at chicken feed. They wait patiently (ok, not too patiently) for our meal scraps and I don’t think they enjoy anything more in the world than a little rainstorm. They get in the mud and bathe in it. They look like little stealth ninjas when they are done.

Though my garden season didn’t begin so smoothly, I can honestly say that the chickens have been fantastic. They are big girls now! I haven’t seen any eggs yet, though the alpha seems to be so advanced that we keep checking every day, even though they aren’t due for egg production for another month or so.
No, I haven’t painted the coop yet (but we bought the paint!). Yes, I’ve been lazy (the summers in Florida are a bitch!). But I don’t hear any complaints from the girls. They love rice spinach and have pretty much snubbed their nose at chicken feed. They wait patiently (ok, not too patiently) for our meal scraps and I don’t think they enjoy anything more in the world than a little rainstorm. They get in the mud and bathe in it. They look like little stealth ninjas when they are done.

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