Update on the Girls

I wanted to give a little update on my chickens.

 Seeing how I hadn't written that much last year, I didn't include much about the chickens.

 In December I lost five chickens to some unknown wild creature. For the longest time I would always let my chickens out and do what they call free-range, out of their outdoor pen. Well that's how I lost the five chickens, they were out just doing their chicken thing.

So since then I decided I'm just going to keep them locked up in their pen area.  It's winter now and there's really not much for them to forge for, so I just supplement their feed with some scratch and just let them fend for themselves in their pen. 

Since I've been doing that I've also been  getting more eggs.

 I'm down to six hens and I'm getting about three eggs a day. 

But when I had the 11 and they were out roaming around I was lucky to get an egg in their nesting box, say once every three or four days. The only thing I can think of is that they were laying outside the hen house and now that they're cooped up within the pen and hen house area they're forced to lay in their nesting boxes. So that's a good thing. 

The girls are healthy, they are older girls, on the average 4 years. 

 I thinking maybe this year I'll probably end up getting more pullets. But not positive on that yet but maybe. Well that's what the girls are up to lately.

 I do enjoy getting eggs again, instead of buying. Just no comparison.