So at what tempature do chickens become flash frozen?  Well, based upon our experience last week, it's when the tempature is -10 degrees with a -25 degree wind chill.  Yep, that's right, I went out to collect eggs and lock up the hens a week ago and found a frozen chiken.  She was solid as a rock.  It looked like she had frozen to death while roosting and just fell over.  The other 25 ladies were just fine but I have since modified the coop slightly in order to reduce the about of airflow that wind can cause through the rafters.  I also added 7 bales of straw to the interior allowing for more insulation.  So far so good.

Oh so back to the frozen dinner... No we didn't eat her, I would have but like I said she was frozen solid.  She ended up in our thistle patch in order to continue the circle of life (probably for coyotes)

End an up note, the ladies keep producing for us, as the 25 remaining hens are providing us with an average of 19 eggs per day. 

 

Looking for the Wagar Family Farm website?  You're in the right place, but we have changed the name of our farm to Coyote Creek Family Farm in order to bring consistency between it and our  homeschool, and a future venture called Coyote Creek Guns, a "kitchen table" style firearm dealer, specializing in the custom ordering of all types of firearms.  No need to worry about the Farm's website address though, it will continue to be wagarfamilyfarm.weebly.com.

As part of the name change comes logos for each of our ventures.  This became a necessity as, Jennifer worked out a deal enabling us to sell our eggs at a local apple orchard, Apple Works.  Next on the docket is to go purchase some blank egg cartons so that we can print out our logo onto stickers and apply them to the egg cartons for advertisement purposes and with the hope of being blessed by return customers. 

Curious about the logos we've decided on?  Here they are.  By the way each is a link to it's own website, so feel free to check them out (all but the farm website is under construction)