The Hard Truth

Today, I put the last of four 50-pound bags of feed into the chickens' feeders. Each bag of this premium feed costs $8.75. It is an excellent feed, full of corn and bean meal, trace minerals, no hormones or antibiotics. It is designed to MAKE EGGS! But my chickens did not get the memo. I warned them, told them I would have to see some improvement if they wanted to keep their happy home. They have successfully devoured 200 pounds of feed in the span of 10 days and I have been rewarded with a total of 9 eggs! Now those are really EXPENSIVE eggs! So, tonight, when the chicken coop settles into evening, I will be visiting these unproductive birds and putting the oldest ones (they have little red bands around their "ankles") into plastic poultry cages, and tomorrow I will be taking them down to Veedersburg, a small-town sale barn . Do not grieve for these birds - I'm sure their new owners will love them just as much as I did. ;)
I will report on the happenings of the last sale of year in my next post. Bye-Bye Birdie!