Winter Girls

Winter brings on all new challenges for the girls! From frozen water, ground so cold you can't come out of your house because your feet get cold and the fact that chickens molt in the late Fall. Hello.....why would you want to lose all your feathers so close to Winter. Everyone seemed to be doing fine until poor Oprah went into such a heavy molt she lost almost all of her feathers! Well, Jeff and I were so worried about her so I went online to my handy "backyard chicken blog" where it told us it could either be bugs or molt! Have you ever stood out in the freezing cold holding a chicken looking for bugs on them! Well, I have and thank goodness I didn't find any! So the advice they gave was to increase their protien and you could do that easily by feeding them dry cat food. So the only cat food that I had was Sydney's really expensive cat food so now the chickens are sharing! And to my suprise Oprah started growing her feathers back in just a week. She still looks a bit ratty but she now is warmer and comes out in the yard and does chicken things like scratching and pecking! We love our girls!
Beyonce, Michelle and poor Oprah enjoying a cold sunny morning!

Beautiful Beyonce....Jeff's favorite!

Michelle and Oprah!