We just passed 400 fans on the Ferndale Backyard Chickens facebook fan page! What a great thing to come in and see after cleaning out chicken poo from the coop run.
It’s cold out there!
One of the best things you can invest in when getting backyard chickens: a remote temperature reader. This way, you can obsess over the slightest temperature variations and neurotically check on your ladies to make sure they’re not chickensicles. (They’re not- in fact, they’re fine down to around 0degrees without any heat source, so long as they’re dry and away from drafts.)
The Great Molt is finally over!
It’s relatively balmy out today, so it was a great morning to let the chickens run around. They’re FINALLY done with their molt and are turning regal again- I’m always amazed by how their feather catch the light just right.
I know it sounds ridiculous, but there’s something about their feathers that make them look like a painting to me, in nearly every photo.
What’s up? Chicken butt(s).
Their fluffy bloomers kill me.
The telltale signs of a great dust bath.
I let the ladies out of the run to wander in the snow, when one of them stopped right by the doorway and shook like a dog. The dark spot is all the dirt she was carrying around with her after her in-coop dust bath.
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