Today we mowed the back half of the big pasture. We set the mower up pretty high so that Buttercup would still have green to eat for a while. The tall grass stalks were blocking sunlight from the shorter grasses. We'll need to overseed this pasture in the early spring so that we can get some more nutritious grasses growing.
We also began catching hens from the yard flock and putting them in the coop and run with the Barred Rocks. Mostly the yard hens are banties, but eggs are eggs.
The Barred Rocks are coming along nicely and should be ready to lay around the beginning of December. I can't wait to have more eggs coming in.
The hen catching technique involves a long metal rod with a hook on the end. We sneakily slip this around a hen's foot, then pull her back toward us, grab her feet, get her out of the catcher and toss her in the coop. They'll be much happier, even though they despise being caught.
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