The girls are in the tractors. Enjoying insects, grass and some worms we are growing for them. I found the idea on one of the chicken blogs I frequent and it is working out beautifully. They love the meal worms & the bird seed.
It is kind of hard to see them but they are all in the bird seed.
To grow the worms you buy a bag of cheap wild bird seed. Add about 6 cups of water and seal back up. Let it sit for several weeks. The initial instructions said to add a cup of water every week but we have not done that. Voila! Meal worms are all mixed in the seeds. More and more will grow but we are now able to give the chickens 2 or 3 cups a day.
This helps supplement their food but best of all they love it! We give them seeds & worms together. When this first batch is about half gone we will start a new bag so that it is ready by the time we run out.
GENIUS!
We are still only getting eggs from one hen. The others have got to start soon! Do I need to buy another dozen eggs from the store? I don't want to but one egg every day or two is really not quite enough. Waiting is very frustrating! Just saying!
We have some new friends. These sweet boys live down the street and stop in every so often while out running in the woods. They are young Great Pyrenees and are about the sweetest huge dogs you will ever meet.
It amazes me how small Havoc looks next to them. Havoc is a big dog but next to them...not so much.
Their mom (owner) says they chased a bear off of her back porch, were gone for 2 days. She hasn't seen the bear since!
They built a huge wooden fence with range fence added but it doesn't even slow them down.
Pup told her he fed them a little bit. She said "They don't eat a little bit!" LOL
Wonderful boys. I look forward to future visits. I need to find out their names!
Cinder was posing on the deck this morning. He is such a strange cat. He rarely cleans himself like most cats do. He comes in with leaves, spider webs and dirt all in his shaggy hair. He could care less.
He is a little slow or "special". LOL He finds the food or treats always about 3 minutes after everyone else. Even if it is right in front of him.
When people come over to visit or stay with us he is no where to be found. He disappears like a ninja. As soon as they leave he is climbing into our lap for mass sessions of loving and purring.
He loves to be loved on but wants nothing to do with anyone but us.
I call him FuzzButt most of the time.
Gavin took some great pics of rainbows on our way home Thursday!
These were double rainbows but it is hard to see the second one.
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