Well it took our chooks forever to start laying but I am please to be able to report we are getting a steady stream of 4-5 eggs a day. Some of them are HUGE and quite a few of the huge ones have been double yolkers! Mmmmmmmmmm nothing better than twice the runny yolk on your toast for dinner! YUM!
I had a slight run in with Red (our rooster, who is white) yesterday thought. He is um.. how shall I put it, rather randy and very protective of his girls. He even ‘feeds’ them.. scratching around until he finds a particularly tasty bug then ‘book bok borking’ away to let one of the girls know it is especially for her. So when I came out the other night with the bucket of scraps for their dinner I guess he felt I was taking over his job and while I walked with the hens around my feet towards the chook house he got me from behind… both claws into the back of my shin!
Mostly it just scared me, then I scared him back and gave him a right shove with the lid of the scraps bucket. Mind you he wasn’t at all worried… but I freaked out poor nervous Henny Penny so much that she ran back under the house and I had to put everyone else to bed without. Took some coaxing with food and chasing around the yard before I finally caught her and got her in safe and sound for the night about an hour later!
Thankfully Red doesn’t seem to think the girls are a threat and happily hops into their lap to eat from their hands…. but I tell you what Randy Red the Rooster had better deliver some might fine chicks this spring/summer or he may well be our first go at eating home grown meat!
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EEP!! Sounds scary, Red sounds like quite the character!
Yikes! Ouch
We had 25 chooks growing up and I still remember the mayhem when we’d yell “here chooks!” whilst clutching the scrap bucket! Glad you got out alive. ;) :)
Oh no!! Don’t let Leah read that or she won’t come play at your place again :) Glad you survived and the chooks are nice to the girls. And that double yolk egg sounds yum :)
LOL Kate, you sound like such a country chick ;)… love the fact that you are getting out there with the chickens and that they are finally doing what they should… not too sure about randy red though ;)!
Oh yay for the double yolkers :) I am petrified of roosters, we owned a poultry farm (egg layers) 25,000 chooks, half of them roosters that used to fly at you and attack you with their spurs….youch!
LOL Kate you poor thing. Red sure better make sure he has his act together hey.
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