Free Range

Home, home on the range. Where the chickens and children play....

This is the time of the year when the chickens get to roam on the range.  There isn't much in the garden for them to scratch to pieces yet and they can cruise around eating anything green or moving that will fit down their gullets.  They sure are happy to be out of the pen after the long winter.  They had a few days out over the course of the winter but not too many since they don't like to walk on the snow or ice in their bare feet.

We purchased 12 more pullets two weeks ago and they haven't laid a single egg yet.  The pullets are supposed to be 20 weeks old and just starting to lay.  This is the longest it's taken them to get started in the 10 or so times we've bought them.  We get them through the Orono Co-op for about $8 each.