Freedom!
The hens have been loosed into the world at large – or into our backyard, anyway, which is plenty large for three not-particularly-bright birds. It’ll still be weeks before they are laying, but their duties of soil aeration and enrichment, pest control, and providing me with a sense of simple, Little-House-on-The-Prairie-esque contentment are well begun.
Ink
Have you been able to sex them properly yet? All girls as intended?
Janine
It’s still too soon to say for sure that they are all certainly hens – but no one is looking particularly butch out there either.