A Brief Respite

Finally, after dealing with squirrels, feathers growing back, a mini-molt, and weasels attacking, it looked like we might get some eggs. After about four weeks, of me being extremely cautious, I finally turned on a light for my chickens. I read that they needed 17 hours of light per day, to kick them back in laying. So after about four weeks of running the light, with the final two weeks running the light 17 hours a day, my hens started showing signs of laying again. We kept running the light, and within a few more days, we got an egg. It started with one egg, then we gradually got up to 6 eggs a day (on average), averaging 6 eggs, out of 7 hens a day is pretty good. Unfortunately I got greedy, I got 5 laying hens (Black Star), and 1 rooster (I believe it's either a Cuckoo Maran, or Barred Plymouth Rock). Can you guess what happened? They started fighting, and my egg laying, started slacking off again. What happened next? I'll tell you in the next post. Thanks for visiting.

Chickenman

Sorry for the delay, I've had some complications, I'll go into more detail in another post.