There are advantages to letting chickens free range. They eat mostly bugs and you know there’s no shortage of bugs around here! They’re getting a good organic diet. We put feed out for them but they don’t eat a whole lot of it. We give them calcium to make stronger egg shells and they love it, including the roosters. They’re happy . . they entertain themselves all day chasing bugs, eating my flowers, following me around, peeping in my windows, knocking on my sewing room door . . not a care in the world do those chickens have.
The disadvantage is . . chicken poop . . everywhere! My free range chickens are about to find themselves locked back in the chicken jail.
See the telltale chicken scratch marks in my little pile of dirt? If that’s not enough to tell me they’ve been playing in the dirt pile, they’ve scratched and scattered it and there’s some of the evidence up on the porch. That’s not all the evidence that’s on the porch. I see several little piles of . . what goes into a chicken comes out . . Helen told me! 🙂
And then I’m in the kitchen cooking and I look out the window.
There’s the peeping chicken again. Thank goodness we didn’t let all 20+ chickens run loose . . we’d have quite a mess around here, not to mention no privacy since they love sneaking around and looking in the windows to see what we’re doing!
Harriett says
Who would have thought that chickens were so nosy. Thanks for the smiles today.
debra says
looking for Mama 😉
Roberta says
Looks like you have a chicken duster there in your dirt pile, they love that. We have several in the yard and they love to dust in fresh tilled soil, keep the gate closed. 😉
We get enough rain to wash away all the leavings every few days. Sorry!!!
Hugs!!!!
carolyn says
HUmmm were you cooking chicken in the kitchen? maybe you need to get one of those rubber chickens to hang in your windows, scare the birds….
Stephanie in AZ says
Hi Judy:
I love your chickens. Question: do the eggs taste different from breed to breed? I know they look different. Thanks.
JudyL says
I don’t notice a difference but some folks might.
Penny Holliday says
Oh, Judy I’ve enjoyed your posts today! I so enjoy escaping my world to hear about your chickens. They really are cute, poop & all!! When we first moved here there was a roadrunner that lived here, also. No one ever believed me about his antics other than he & his mate pooped all over our front circular driveway & back patio & skuffle up dirt in our flower beds. He would follow me from rm to rm jumping on brick window sils peering in, even a high bathrm window then pecking on french door glass for attention or to come inside. Sometimes he just scared the bejeebers out of me!! But this yr I haven’t seen him at all. So keep those chicken stories coming!
Penny in So CA
Teresa says
what do you do with all those eggs, we would never use that many a day. just wondering?