Fall Cleanup

Jaron and I bundled up to do some cleanup outside before the snow flies. 

The chickens and goats coexist quite well. Don't seem to bother each other at all!

This chicken found a new roost. Used to be on top of the milking stand, now it's higher up- on top of the shed door. 

G brought home a ton of pumpkins for our animals (leftover from the garden center!) and tossed them out of the truck any which way since it was late and dark.  

I rolled and carried them to the compost pile so if we don't feed them to the animals, at least they decompose in an acceptable location. 

Our oldest hen, Dixie, has laid low recently. I haven't seen her out and about with the others, she looks pretty scraggly, and we haven't gotten any green eggs in a while, so G and I checked her out. I thought she was sick, maybe a fungus/ringworm type thing growing on her face. Nope. She's just molting. 😆

All those tough looking feathers are actually new feathers that haven't fluffed out yet. There's a thin casing around them that will work off eventually. 

And once the molting is finished, she'll start laying again!