Sophia

Odetta

Rosa

Nina

Alice

I got 5 new pullets in November from my friend Mike Warren who raised them from chicks and sold them to me as pullets once they grew up enough. Their names are Sophia, Odetta, Rosa, Nina and Alice

This way they would be ready to lay in spring and  are starting to do so now. The pullets were big enough that we didn’t even have to acclimate them to the older hens. The old girls accepted them right away.

Notice when pullets start laying, their eggs are smaller than adult eggs

and sometimes in the beginning, they don’t even have hard shells!

I still have 5 older hens that are 10 years old this year! They had stopped laying several years ago except now that the new ones are laying, 2 of them are laying again! They have remained pets since their laying days.

 What does BT the cat have to do with chickens? Nothing, he just loves his chicken!