#urban chickens

[tomorrowsgardennc]

hall monitor is so pretty with all his feathers in.

[trexalicious]

This is Serafina our silver-penciled Westfälischer Totleger or Deathlayer chicken. Her original name was Oreo, but all our hens have old fashioned human names and something about 'Oreo the Deathlayer' just didn't flow...🤣

[nerdyqueerandjewish]

Blanche ❤️❤️❤️

[gemwel]

Chickens snacking on California buckwheat and Toyon berries. (Please note Toyon is legally protected in CA and cannot be foraged from the wild. We have our own plants to harvest from).

Both plants are drought tolerant and native to Southern California. The Toyon berries are a bit too fibrous for my taste (eating them is like trying to eat cherry flavored chewing gum), but the buckwheat produces an acceptable flour substitute (from gorgeous seed heads not pictured). I'm pruning back the buckwheat to shape it up for next year, so chickens get the prunings. The young shots of the buckwheat are extremely tasty, especially when added to salad (they have a sour lemon taste like sorrel).

[homeofhousechickens]

This is my pet cockatrice his name is Scoot or otherwise know as the Mr. Scoot Man

[tinylongwing]

Mordechai, a hen belonging to a friend of mine.

[laughing-thrush]

You’ve heard of wild birds being hard to photograph, now get ready for: domestic birds still being hard to photograph bc probably you have treats. Or maybe your camera is treats...

[songscloset]

Hens usually lay less in winter. It's directly dependant upon light: shorter days bring fewer eggs. But we're in New Hampshire and in the dead of winter, they were getting about 6 hours of light, which is awful. So we put a light in the coop so they could have a couple hours extra light. The light goes out at 7pm, so they're still getting lots of rest time.

They go inside as soon as it gets dark outside and I like to imagine them inside with the light on, gossiping and playing pinochle.

Anyway. They're laying so many eggs. Today they laid fifteen (15). That means all but four laid an egg.