It's A Dirty Job, But Someone's Gotta Do It

"A happy hen is a productive hen!"

Well, it's that time again to clean out the hen house. With the cold weather coming, we needed to clean out the old shavings, and pile in a good few inches of the new stuff.  As you can see, a hen house can get very dirty.

Ahhh....I love my multipurpose snow shovel!  lol

 

While I was shoveling out, Bethany decided it was a 

good time to hop inside the nesting box with the eggs . . . .

count them . . . .

and then sit on them.  I removed the eggs, put some fresh bedding underneath her, 

and brought the eggs to the house.  When I returned . . . .

someone was sound asleep.

I continued shoveling and took two trailer loads

to the compost pile at the edge of our woods

Underneath are the remains of our tomato plants

Ahhhh. . . .fresh, clean bedding.....and it's so.....thick and cozy!  

The better to keep you warm with during the winter, my dear!

 

Since we were cleaning out and sprucing up, I thought I
would try and beautify the house a little for the ladies.

We had some extra bedding that had gotten wet (that's why it's orange) 

and some brick just sitting around so I decided to put them both to good use.

I was going to put flowers in the beds but decided against it

Ok, ladies. . . .it's time to start headin' in

Goodnight!