4m x 3m Omlet pen, cube, new auto door still boxed and coop light

[Ygerna]

I can tell because it's 4.30pm and my girls are still scratching around in their run

 

Spring is almost sprung

[Chickvic]

Let's hope so! I'd love some more eggs - when they finally stop moulting of course!

[ubereglu]

Mine have just gone in! Starlet's started crouching for me and Muddles is definitely getting a redder comb again, and they're more interested in corn now too. Come on those eggs!

[hillfamily]

I was just going to start a topic on how the days seem to be getting longer great minds think alike :D

 

Before I had chickens I didn't really notice the gradual changes in day length - it was either long days and summer or short days and winter.

 

A few times this week, I've looked at the clock and thought the girls will be waiting for me to close the cube door, only to go out and find them all still up :D

 

Roll on Spring and the longer days :D

[Egluntyne]

Lovely isn't it.

 

I got home from work at 3ish and there was still time for the hens to play out for an hour.

[clootie]

still time for the hens to play out for an hour.

 

That made me chuckle

[Cooks]

mine were out this afternoon with me, but they are going to have to learn not to trip me up, everytime I move they think I am going to give them something tasty.. they did get a worm each from some earth DH dug over, it didn't even touch the sides of their little beaks, it was down in one!

 

Really dark here now, got dark about 5.00pm

Edited January 15, 2009 by Guest

[Plum]

Minutes count another 5 mins of day and I will see them in the run at night.

[BeckyBoo]

When I was dog poo picking I happened to notice the tips of the daffodils peeking through the soil where does the time go? Half way through January already....

 

Mrs B

[Chook n Boo Mum]

When I was dog poo picking I happened to notice the tips of the daffodils peeking through the soil where does the time go? Half way through January already....

 

Mrs B

 

I forgot to mention it when I noticed, but we had our first narcissus break into bloom on New Year's Day ! Stupidly forgot to take a picture as I was out during the daylight hours after I had noticed it! Strangely enough, no others have broken forth as the weather has been so cold of late, but there are lots of shoots pushing well above the grass level.

 

Sha x

[Olly]

It will be quite a while before they are still up at 6.00 when I get in from work. However I am noticing the lighter mornings, as the time to tiptoe up the garden and extract the newbie from the Cube to put in her own run is getting earlier and earlier.

 

I love seeing the garden change; before I had chickens I doubt if I would have set foot in the garden from about October - March. What a lot I would have missed!

[Cate in NZ]

Oh dear, I suppose the reverse is true here then, but it's still high summer here so the thought of shorter days hasn't really registered yet. I hope spring comes soon and that you can all make the most of all those lovely lighter evenings

[Jules.]

We've noticed the lighter nights too, they make me really