Winter moult

Some friends are complaining their gals are losing their looks - a few feathers here, a few there and before you know it your once gloriously glamorous hens resemble chooks who have taken up cage fighting - and not on the winning team.
Don't despair.

The onset of cold weather often sends chooks into a moult and sometimes off the lay.
I try to spoil the little darlings - although they often resemble darleks when thye misbehave in the broccolli patch but that's another andafr darker story.

So try some crushd garlic corms in their water bowls and some extra comfrey in their pen to give them some pep.

I also make them up some porridge with rolled oats to get their tummies warm on colder days.

So far the five gals are producing four eggs a day which is more than enough so I canshare with friends.