The Dots in Winter

Lucas watching the Dots on Friday; it has warmed

to the 30s so it was very pleasant & the Dots were

happy to be outside.  So was Lucas!

Lacey and The Dots sharing the safe pen. When

Lacey isn't in the hay house, the Dots are checking

it out. They've learned to co-exist and are doing

quite well together.



The Dots are still laying and the egg numbers are

going up since the slight warmup; today we got 8

eggs in the morning and 4 more in the late afternoon

so all but 2 hens laid eggs today. Pretty good production.

All the pretty eggs

Wild birds waiting their turn to eat at the feeders

The feeding frenzy during the below zero days this

past week. They ate a lot of seed.

This morning when we let the Dots into the safe pen, Lacey came out and first spent time with Mark doing chores. He then left her out of the safe pen on her own when he came back into the house. We watched her to see what she would do. She circled the Dots safe pen a few times, then laid down outside the pen. She played with sticks, wandered around the yard a few times, came to the door a couple times but always went back to The Dot House and circled it and then laid down again. Seems that she is getting the hang of protecting the Dots. It was a successful first day.