For the first time since October 2021 we have introduced a new flock of point-of-lay hens onto the farm. On Tuesday we brought 150 new birds and put them up in their own shed in our current chicken field. Hopefully they will start laying soon and we will no longer have to supplement our own egg production with eggs from local free-range flocks.
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| New hens in their lovely clean house. |
We hadn't bought new hens for so long because of the ongoing bird flu pandemic, but our flock was ageing and dwindling, as was our egg production. The demand for our eggs is high, we have had no cases of bird flu on the farm, and general consensus is that we should have hens here, so we have taken the plunge.
We also dragged our three sheds up the field and spaced them out in lovely fresh biodiverse pasture, which our older hens are enjoying, and our new flock will start to enjoy tomorrow morning once we let them out (when they have been "hefted" to their shed).
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