Autumn Delight
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
My hens are curious and cautious creatures. If I should bring anything new into the coop they will give it the one eye and cluck about as if to say “What’s that?? What’s that??” They will walk about it and check it out gingerly from a distance. This goes on for hours. Today it was a pumpkin with its top cut off. I removed some of the seed and filled it with cracked corn. I get excited bringing them out something new, so I watch from the window or thru my coop cam.
Finally one girl will trepidly approach the foreign object and discover that it is a good treat after all. She will tell the others and then it’s a hen feeding frenzy. It’s fun to change up their diet and expose them to different food items. With the change in season, like us, they should be eating the freshest crops being harvested from the garden.