The success of a poultry operation dedicated to the production of eggs begins long before the first hen lays an egg, it lies in the meticulous and strategic management of laying pullets from the first

This little guy and 3 more of his buddies were why my parsley was so bug eaten on Thursday. It’s a swallowtail caterpillar and I also find them on the volunteer dill. I needed an in the house job that

On Monday morning when he drove by, there was a hen in the nestboxes. She was twisting and turning all around in there. There were several curious onlookers. Apparently there had been 2 in the boxes, one

The old prototype nestboxes we had attached to this coop when we built it disintegrated last year. He just took them off and covered the hole back in June. Fortunately, the pullets started to lay while

I had 4 more of the pullets scheduled for pickup on Tuesday morning. These were 4 Barred Rocks. My helper friend was here and he cleaned the cold room. I had taken all the equipment out of it while I waited

The 18 girls of the new layer flock are laying very well. They sent up 17 eggs Monday night. My husband said he hunted for the 18th to no avail. I still get 1 or 2 small eggs, about an equal amount of

They sent in 9 eggs for 18 birds on Thursday night. That’s a 50% Rate of Lay, not bad for 24 week/5½ month old birds. They also have no supplemental light, being out on pasture still. Unlike the slacker

There are only 4 other boxes there…the Australorp is the intruder The diversity in the New Layers’ pen We had to move the pasture pen for the last time on Sunday. A couple of the Barred Rocks and an Australorp