Oh, I love Max for a name for a chicken. Could be short for Maxine. ?????
My little brother named all our chickens. There was Pete, Pete, Pete, Pete, Pete, and Pete.
I’m sorry, can’t remember if you said... are you getting eggs yet?
Our neighbors complained about our chickens (as we lived in the suburbs), until we shut them down completely by giving them all a dozen eggs every once in a while. There’s nothing like really fresh eggs. I remember being so incredibly surprised to find that the yolks of our fresh eggs were bright orange.
We fed our chickens all our kitchen scraps plus, of course, regular chicken feed. I believe it better to give them a wide variety of stuff where they can pick and choose.
That’s what I thought too when I was posting... Max for Maxine ~
Pete, pete, pete is too cute and too funny.
Yes, we’re getting eggs. Average 4 a day with just 6 hens.
The bad thing though, is that I’ve only ever caught one girl on her nest and actually saw the egg come out. It was pretty neat I must say.
No complaints and we shouldnt get any complaints because we’re out in the country.
Hubby wants to let them free range for a little bit each day but I told him that we couldnt really do that because the neighbor on the north doesnt have their dogs confined and they’re always coming onto our property to harass my dogs who are in a kennel.........sigh.......