The Hens are back to their old tricks...

If you've been reading my tales you will know that a few of our hens are a bit, how shall we say, rebellious. They like to lay their eggs outside, and in a new location every time we find the nest. The last couple weeks we've noticed a steep decline in eggs from the coop, so today we set out to find the latest secret nest. Of course the eggs will be frozen, and I will bring them in and fry them up for the girls. I want to find them because that's good food out there going to waste, and the chickens love cooked eggs.

One of their usual not-so-secret spots. I usually find 1 or 2 eggs a week there. It's not a popular nest because they know, we know. Only stupid hens lay there. Definitely not Fluffy or her crew of wise guy hens.

You see that little speck of blue? That's Stryder. We're looking way in the bush today because yesterday I saw Snowflake (a little black hen) allllllll by herself coming back from way in there, squawking like a banshee, the ol' "I just laid an egg and now I need to find my family" call.... #ChickenBitches

Kiedis there in the zebra jacket. The kids can fit into much smaller spaces than me to look for the secret egg stash.

That would be a great spot to lay a secret egg, but nothing there.

We can see the ocean through the trees here. One thing that's nice about winter.

This is hopeless...

There's so many nooks and crannies that they could be using...

And thorns everywhere, we're definitely paying the price.

We never did end up finding the nest...

Tomorrow I'm going to spend a lot of time out there in the morning watching where they go, it's supposed to be really warm out (-3). The boys were troopers and we tried our hardest. Now it's time for lunch. Also time for the chickens to have their lunch too. I give them their "treat bowl"...

And there's poor Big Smokie...not allowed to feed with everyone because he's not the top Rooster. Mr. Pendock chases him away any time he tries. We're gonna need a song for this...

I'm on the outside...And I'm looking in...

Poor Big Smokie...and he's not the only one on the Outside...

Poor Lil Hercules...he's not even allowed to come as close as Smokie, because like we say, shit rolls downhill, and Smokie will beat up Herc if he comes within 10 feet of the treat bowl.

These hens are on the outside too...look at that hideous giant panda. They're glad they're not allowed in.

The rip in the greenhouse is getting bigger hahaa! Just hope it lasts through the winter on that one side so the chickens can keep using it as a winter shelter during the day.

The Frozen Low Tide

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