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Well, the chickens are now 20 weeks old and no eggs yet.  I think that with the cold weather and shorter days, they may not start really laying until the spring.  We’ll see.

Sweetie gets out of the pen on a daily basis.  Yesterday, I found her up in a dogwood tree, trying to entice the other chickens to fly on up!  She is such a rebel!  I am worried that she will get hurt, but Suki seems to ignore her.  In fact, Suki has been breaking into the pen but not for the chickens.  I found her in there the other day… chickens on one side and suki on the other, by the food!  It seems that Suki thinks she is a chicken and needs to eat scratch.  I certainly don’t mind throwing Suki a little scratch if it means she will leave the chickens alone :-)

2 Responses to “Not counting my eggs yet…”

  1. Kathy says:

    I suspect the chicken feed won’t hurt her any. I think dogs’ attitude toward food of any sort is “Hey! Can I eat that? Well ALRIGHT then!” and away they go.

    Our ducks were hatched in May and laid their first eggs in October, so about 20-25 weeks. Our ducks have always laid well in the late fall and winter, once they are done molting. So you may get eggs for your winter breakfasts yet!

  2. Steph says:

    Better scratch than chicken poop! My old dog thought that stuff was the greatest..bleah.

    My girls are 24 weeks old now and while the Buffs started laying a couple of weeks ago the Ameracaunas are just getting ready to (only one egg from them so far). On avergae these girls will be closer to 6 mos and that’s actually better for their innards. If they start laying soon you should have eggs through the winter, we have.

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