32. Winter Continues

We have snow!
Usually, that is what we should expect come winter in these parts, but the past few seasons of cold have turned out to be short of the white stuff. Last week we had about 10 inches and yesterday (another snow day, yahoo!) three more.
Here is a picture of our chickens in the snow:
Sadly, one of our beautiful white cochins bit the dust last week... We believe her demise to have been because of our two very large and rowdy roosters competing for her affections... After the spring foxes, we might change up the dynamics of the coop inhabitants. Only time will tell.

31. December...

Yes, yes it HAS been a while since our last update!
With the early December baby long overdue, Mom has a few moments to get to details that have been missed these last few months.

So, without further procrastination, we recently had our first snow!!
Here is a view of the coop:



Pablo, the reigning coop rooster, and some of the new as-of-yet-still-unnamed hens test out the first snow of the season. He soon calls them back in with a few roo-clucks. Along with the weather came some wind and falling branches which took down the netting roof... so add another project to the coop to-do list!

30. September Arrives

Over the summer we finished the roof, enclosed a run off the coop hatch and netted over the top. Since then, we've been trying to get other projects on and around the house done and this coop blog has been sorely neglected because of it!!

So, to keep things up to date, we still intend to paint the coop red to match the house and center supports will be needed for the netting before the snow comes... However so far so good. Aside from hearing some raccoons through the woods and the soaring above of hawks and owls, our flock has been safe this season... The fall may bring about new animal antics so we have our eyes out and our ears open.

Inside the coop we created another roost since the newly hatched flock was using the nesting boxes as their night time sleeping spot which, in turn, kept some of the older hens from wanting to lay eggs there during the day... Also, we added some new nesting spots. At next coop clean I will take out the camera and post the photos.