Five pullets started laying in September.
One Silver Leghorn, one Single Comb Brown Leghorns, one Phoenix, one Golden Penciled Hamburg, and one Lakenvelder.
I get one or two eggs a day. I supplement daylight with a 75 watt bulb.
I let the hens loose in my backyard after dark. I hang a work light with a long cord in the grapevine arbor. The hens scratch for an hour or two beneath the light and then go in to roost. They don't venture much beyond the halo of the light bulb and they get a bit of fresh soil to scratch in once a day. So far so good.
Last night, I discovered two young neighbor girls, all smiles, standing inside my henhouse. They had found the hens in my yard outdoors and they rounded them up for me :)
Marian Syrjamaki-Kuchta
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