Hello, well it’s 1st December already, so time to do a November round-up of hen happenings in this neck of the woods. All four gals are happy & healthy. And Ruby is looking (almost) splendid with her new feathers.
Ruby is the red hen on the left. Easy to differentiate from Doris, because Ruby has quite a few dark brown feathers at the end of her tail, and she’s also slightly smaller in size. There are still a few spikey bits on her head, but I think you’ll agree the scrawny look is behind us (until the next moult).
On the egg-laying front, gals are not firing on all cylinders. Some days there are 3 eggs to collect. The one top centre here was a double-yolker – I’m pretty sure that was laid by Rita. Most days there are only 2 eggs in the nesting box. It seems they’re taking it turns to lay but, with 4 hens, that still gave us a total of 67 eggs for November. Since I took the above photos we had our first snowfall – hens not too happy about that.
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I am glad they are thriving. They always lay less when the days are short unless you give them some extra light early or late.
yup daylight hours are so short at this time of year and no we don’t give artificial light because winter is nature’s way of letting their bodies rest.
Happy to see Ruby looking so well.