Too many photos, too little time to share! Today I’m throwing together a few photos from around the farm that I love, but hadn’t gotten a chance to share yet.
I call this one “Up and Down”:
I think the guinea hens love to show off the fact that they can fly higher than the chickens can!
When taking photos for our recent post about our surprise rooster, now named Charlie, one of the hens thought she needed to get in on the action.
I think she might be mimicking him!
We’d also been lamenting the lack of eggs, and possibility of hidden nests. About a week after that post went up, we had a day where we got 14 eggs (out of 18 hens).
We haven’t had a day like that again though, but overall things have been a bit better. I did seriously consider training Luke to find eggs, but after that day I thought maybe I was wrong about the hidden nest. I did find one new place they tried, but once I removed the 2 eggs from it, they stopped using it. Now we’ve been averaging about 8 eggs/day, so I’m back to wondering again! That’s still a bit better than we were doing though, so we’ll see how things go when the “new girls” start laying.
Speaking of the new girls, I am trying to give them all names and I’ll share those at some point. This little girl here is “Roxanne”.
Roxanne has become a favorite around here. She is much smaller than the other girls, but she is the bravest and friendliest. She was the first to wander out of the coop all on her own. Since we have several white birds of different breeds, I’ve been trying to figure out which breed she is, and I think her temperament says that she is a Rhode Island White, and not a White Leghorn, the other possibility. She seems to be a bit of a loner though….while the other newbies hang out in a group, she is usually off on her own, or more with the “big girls”. Luckily she seems to stay mostly around the garage and barn so I feel like she’s safer. I think part of the reason she goes off on her own is to get away from Charlie, because she seems to be his favorite too! However, she is not interested in his attention at this point. I have a feeling she might be our first layer out of this group, which may be why he’s so interested. It’s always fun to watch how the farm soap operas play out! 🙂
Have a great weekend!
I sure wish we could have chickens! I think that our dogs would be way too interested in them, plus our zoning will not allow them. I can admire yours, though! Beautiful flock!
We are happy to share our flock for your enjoyment! ♥
What a fun post!! I live vicariously through people like you that have chickens and guineas! I would love to have them, but my husband says no…. rats … 🙂
But I love your girls and I love the name Roxanne, I think it suits her – Charlie has good taste!!
Have a good week!!
I’m so glad that you enjoy seeing our birds! You are right, Charlie does have good taste, but i think he’s mostly given up on Roxanne. We think one of the other girls might be getting ready to lay, and he’s turned his attention to her. Fickle men! LOL
Yay for more eggs! That Charlie is one handsome fellow. You are going to have to think of a lot of names for all your birds. Can you tell the guineas apart?
No, we cannot, so only the different ones get names. I can’t even tell many of the chickens apart, since we have at least two of most breeds. I’ll name them anyway, and sometimes I end up finding ways to tell them apart. Hubby can’t remember most of their names anyway. LOL!
Glad you got more eggs in your basket. 🙂
Good one! Me too! We haven’t had a good day like that since though. 🙁
Great photos! Those chickens and hens are so entertaining.
They really are! Thank you!
OMD those are da cutest photo bombs efur!! Our Uncle Mike used to have a hunting dog dat would find da eggs but him was the retrieve the egg don’t bring it to no one type. Him would eat them up…nom nom nom 😉
We just love Roxanne she is so pretty!!
Luke loves eggs too, so that could be a problem! Though I have seen him hold one in his mouth without breaking it!
Charlie, you dawg…chasing the young girls! Love seeing these images. Chickens are pretty fascinating.
They really are! They are so much more entertaining than I ever imagined!
When you have Luke in a post then I’m in. I love Luke.
Have a fabulous day and weekend. Scritches to Luke. ♥
We try to almost always include him, just for you. ♥
Those were such fun photos, those faces sure made us smile!
We are so glad you enjoyed them!!
Those are awesome photos. Luke’s guarding the hens.
He wants to be sure he gets his share of eggs!
What cute and silly chicken pictures today!
They are so fun!! 🙂
love the look of the photo bomber. and now I know why my grampy bought me a guinea hen instead of the peacock I wanted (aaaah eggs-pensive) they look a little similiar, right ?… well ok with lots of imagination… but I was happy anyway ;O)
There are some breeds of guinea hens that are very colorful, but they are probably eggs-pensive too!!
So many chickens, so little time! It would be tough to keep track of all those birds all the time. I sure hope they start producing more eggs for you soon.
When they are free ranging, it is impossible to keep track! When they go to bed at night, we have to do a head count – or maybe that’s a beak count? 🙂
What beautiful eggs! Love the pictures of Charlie and the hen!
I love having all the different color eggs.
Thank you!
The photo-bombing hen and Charlie steal the show on this post! I have all kinds of thought bubbles popping up in my brain to speculate what they’re thinking.
I bet you have some good ones! 🙂