Guineas and Chickens

Morning everyone, 

Do have to keep chickens and guineas closed up until we get the top netting for their pen, the guineas are flying up and over the fence and we are having to catch them up each night and put them into the shed for safety. The netting should be here in the next few days or so. Once done we can turn them all loose again in their larger run area. 

I am tired already of chasing birds to put back into the pen area, the guineas get the chickens to going and then they also go over the fence. The guineas were on top of the shed last night and we had one chicken join them, so far now, they are being detained inside their plastic-covered area. 

Will have some pics to share when they are outside again. Will come back and post the pics on this page when we are done with it all. 

UPDATE: 

Later on, we got the netting and got it spread over the huge chicken area. Much safer for the birds, and it was larger than we thought, so now we have a huge extranet, could be used on an outdoor aviary. 

Love and Prayers, 

Margo

                           

SNOWING

Morning all, 

It is or was raining out now turned to SNOW and it is sticking. When I let the chickens out this morning, it was raining and they did not like that too much, but when it turned to snow, they all began to run to get inside the covered area of pen or under bushes. There first good rain, then snow for them, this will be their first winter. 

Lucky laid a double yoka egg yesterday that is her 4th egg like that. and she is not even one year old yet. 

Love and Prayers,

Margo

Fall time clean up & Chicken chores

Morning to all, hope you are having a wonderful day. 

Today we started bringing in the outside plants that come in for wintertime. I have cut way back some of my trees that come in this year, just too large to handle in small spaces for the winter. I am just letting go of many others as they are old and leggy, need to just get new ones in spring. 

Then it is out to the chicken pen and clean up the wet soggy straw, and new plastic on the sides of the pen and then put in new dry straw which will stay that way once we get it wrapped in plastic.  Better for the hens also, lets the sunlight in and blocks the cold wind. This next week we should be getting the fencing put up so the chickens can have their room to run around and be free until dusk and time to return to the safety of the pen and then shed as night falls. 

We are gonna be egg-poor when they all start laying. We will sell fresh eggs, gonna put up a chicken sign for next year when we have extra eggs to sell. 

Pics will follow after the pen is cleaned up and the new fence is done. 

Love and Prayers, 

Margo

Happy Halloween

Hope all are enjoying the Fall of the year. Right now it is raining and has been for several days now, feels like I am walking in a water puddle when I go to feed the chickens. Before too much longer the addition to the fence we had done will have a place divided off so the chickens can run wild during the day, hopefully, they all come running back to the shed for evening meal and then get locked up for the night. Not a lot of color this year for some reason.

We got our electric bikes well, one bike and one trike. Found out from our house to the main road is all downhill, I thought it looked level, but it is all uphill to get back home. Learned just how out of shape I am in, got a lot of work to do. We ride together to the main road and then uphill all the way back, thank God they are electric. Would never have made it back otherwise. A little at a time and we will get better. Think I will also try the bike and see how that handles over the trike. 

We will have to go to where there is a flat area to ride so I can enjoy the ride better. I won't give up and will keep working on it. I do love to ride bikes always have. 

Love and Prayers, 

Margo

HAPPY     HALLOWEEN