Lots Of Eggs

It has been a busy past few days. Clay, Frances & Alex put up a fence around a really big area that is attached to the chicken house.

The chickens have been found out on our road and headed toward neighbors. It is a long way to the road for them but with the cold having come in there just aren't any bugs for them to forage throughout the day the way they were used to.

I thought of the idea of clipping the hens wings so that they wouldn't fly out of the fenced area. The next day we all went out and took care of that. We have had lots of practice clipping wings having taken care of Yaco for about 15 yrs now. The clipping did the trick. Chickens are such lemmings. Where one goes, they all go, one runs, they all run. The are very entertaining to watch.

Finally Drew was convinced to change his family plan cell phone numbers to local ones instead of hawaii.So now all 4 of us have Missouri cell #'s.

Today was an all time record, we have 8 hens laying now, 8 eggs a day. It is really nice because with the holidays coming and the cooking and baking it is that much less we have to get at the grocery.