Devonviolet Acres

Yummy looking egg! Don't you just love the freshness of having your won chickens? I can't stand store bought eggs and i never order eggs in restuarants either.

Absolutely! I can't bring myself to buy store eggs or order eggs in restaurants either! There is just no comparison, when you can have the best eggs, on God's green earth, from your own chickens!

When our girls go on strike we go without eggs.

Ours are slowing down lately. We have gone from 11 down to 4-5 a day.

We had electric brought to the coop, so we could put lights in the coop and run shelter. DH now needs to run wiring, inside the coop and run, for the lights.

But now our time & energy is going towards putting in perimeter fencing, so we can get our goats out browsing & clearing out woods. Too much to do, and not enough hours in the day.

Ferguson K said:

When our girls go on strike we go without eggs.

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Our first chickens were 2 Silver Laced Wyandotte hens. They molted and quit laying. I bought 1 dozen eggs for things like cornbread, etc. Three months later when we started getting eggs again, I still had one egg left. I gave it to the dogs.

Farm fresh eggs are so much better
We are planning our re-entry to chickens
We still get the occasional egg from our two remaining retired hens
They deserve a happy retirement after helping train Angel
They got slobbered on more than once

@Devonviolet I hope your fence building goes better than it has been. Clearing out the trees, briars and brush is a big job. It will make such a huge difference for your goats to be able to go graze and browse.

At least we have 3 areas fenced now. Got the last property line cleared Saturday. It was so bad, that we couldn't even get through the thicket. It will sure make getting the fence up so much easier.

Thanks @Baymule. Yes, it has been a huge challenge, clearing the fenceline! We have cleared the bulk of it all the way back, and have piles of brush and small trees, that need to be moved.

Today, DH removed a hundred+ feet of barbed wire, from the previous fencing, that was incorrectly placed inside our property line.

Now the big challenge is to make sure we get the fence on the property line. We have the official survey map done when we bought the property. The sellers paid several hundred $$$ for the survey. However, the surveyors only marked the 4 corners of the property. If they think we are going to pay them another several hundred $$$ for them to come back & do what they could have done when they were doing the original survey, they have another thing coming. They made specific marks, on the map, where the old fence was several feet inside the property line (of course they don't indicate how far inside). It just puzzles me why they couldn't put a red flag on the property line while they were at it?
Grrr!

Our property isan odd shape. Almost house shaped. When we were putting our fence in we realized the old fence was on the right of way ( we own the land, but, can't fence it ) so then we had to bring the entire fence in so that the road crews had access without us putting in a gate.

It would have been nice us they had flagged while they are surveying, but, that's the way they operate around here.

Edited because my phone never knows what I am saying...

I went along with the surveyor when he was doing our place so mine is marked better than usual.