Wow, just stunning, Jane.
I’ve been raising chickens for 15 years, barred rocks. They are so predictable in laying I could set my watch by them. I raise a new group of hens every other year to replace the older ladies who don’t lay as much.
Here’s a little report from my neck of the woods. It was around Sept/Oct mine quit laying all except 2 chickens. We normally get 12 eggs/day and during a molt/wintertime (Nov /Dec) it usually drops to 6, but picks back up in Jan. With additional coop light hours, by now I should be back to dozen/day.
I have been using the same brands of feed from TSC. I have two chickens that continued to lay consistently and I marked them last week with blukote. They are two of my older hens too. Those hens are running to the billy goat area and eat out of the goat trough. My chickens are free range too but they definitely need supplemented in the winter.
I started giving all of them goat feed, but last week, I got a bag of feed that is locally made and have been feeding it. I have gone from 2 eggs/day to 5 in one week. It will be interesting to see what happens from here.
I for sure think something is going on, but I have been suspicious with all the processing plants, bird flu, meat facilities, etc for over a year. Couple that with Gates and his BIOMILQ and chicken-less egg investments and who knows what all else…
I have suspicions about my garden as well, something is very off all around. Several other gardeners around here have said the same. IDK.
Centralizing our food - what could possibly go wrong?
I LOVE the turkey gobbles in the background!!!!
I wonder if I got some domestic turkeys, would they run off with the wild turkeys? Turkeys and deer use our driveway as their connection between the forest where they live and the pasture lands (sometimes yards) where they eat.