10/52

Joining Barbara in commemorating the year in once a week posts … just whatever is going on in your life: the mundane, the crazy, the normal, the everyday.

You asked for pictures! 

I ordered three to try them out.  Will the Hen Savers work for my silly flock??  Each of the Wyandotte’s is barebacked like the hen below.  some have even fewer tail feathers!  And, I’ve tried other remedies … from supplementing with more protein, to cutting out all extra’s because that would cut down on the proportion of nutrients absorbed from their layer ration, to providing scratch for entertainment, to spraying them all with a natural anti-pick spray (it contained pepper and other ingredients chickens supposedly do not like to taste). 

The other remedy I will be trying is to add diatomaceous dust/earth treatment to their dust bath area.  This will combat pests and lice, if that is the problem.  I don’t think that’s the root cause, but chickens are susceptible and it’s a good practice to ‘dust’ them at least once each year.

The top chicken has the camo Hen Saver and the lower chicken is sporting the black Hen Saver.  The hen with the black Hen Saver liked hers better.  The two chicken with the camo Savers acted like Ostriches!  They wobbled around and backed up trying to get ‘it’ off.  They were quite funny!  However, Angelina says they have now adjusted and she’s seen one of them in the nest box, so they aren’t too affected to give up their routine.

Now, to see if the feathers grow back!  I am hopeful…

 

The kitchen window and what’s outside the kitchen window are a source on entertainment for Louis.  Eric took the older boys out for a snowmobile ride this past Sunday.  Fresh snow meant Zeke wanted to wear goggles to sled!

Beautiful sunset as the snowmobilers go for a ride on Sunday evening.