Rural Gardening: chicken portaits and pictures PART 2, 1 by CajuninKy

CajuninKy wrote:
Thank you for the kind words. She is really proud of her girls. They are beautiful. I hope to have some like them one day. Right now I have 2 bantam roos, 1 bantam hen and 3 bantam pullets. I also have 1 game cock and 2 game hens. My hen had layed a couple of eggs after she raised her last chicks and then she started molting so she quit laying. The pullets have never started laying even though they are old enough. I just figured it was because of the time of year and not enough daylight hours. I always check the nest boxes just out of habit but I quit even being disapponted anymore. When i came back from vacation this week I was happy to see the animals again and fell back into the routines. I fed the flock and checked the nest boxes. Imagine my suprise when there were eggs in the nest! Eight of them. One was broken and 6 were cracked so the dogs and cat will get those but the intact one will be for me. They were all cracked because we had freezing temps while we were gone. I'm going to have to insulate the nest somehow. My coop needs a lot of work. It's an old dog yard that I am making do with until Spring. I want to reroof an old stone root cellar on the property and attach a small yard to it.

Don't laugh too hard at my try at being artistic with my photo. LOL