New Chickens

So we are starting to get the reputation around town as a they chicken people. We were in El Camino, the local diner, and someone walking by and stopped us to say hi and called us the "chicken keepers".

That being said, we ended up getting a new collection of chickens a couple weeks ago. The farm that was keeping them decided that they were too much work, so checked to see if we could take them. There ended up being 20 in total, 19 hens and 1 rooster. They are a mixture of ameracaunas and wyandottes. We took them in and put them in isolation in the horse field. Most of the hens were missing feathers and they had been pecking on each other.

Now that they have passed quarantine, we have let them out and they are free-ranging in the horse field They are looking much happier. We did give 4 of the hens to a fellow farmer from the market who was in need of some new hens.

We did have to make some adjustments to the turkey coop where then hens now reside. We needed to add some new roosts and nesting boxes. We used pallets for roosts and added 4 additional nesting boxes. The turkey box that was in there is too large for the hens to use happily.