Feathers, Feathers, Everywhere Feathers

OMG -- the feathers are every where.  It scared me at first because I thought that a preditor had caught a chicken but when I counted all 10 were here.  So today even more feathers and I knew nature was at work.  I looked it up and my chickens are moulting.  When a chicken moults it gets rid of the old feathers and grows new ones.  For now not only do I have lots of feathers but I have chickens that are starting to look a little bare.

Playing Chicken

I was cutting the grass on my lawn tractor and as this picture shows, my yard is not level.   There is a hill I mow that is like riding a roller coaster.  So today as I was mowing apparently the hens are not afraid of the mower any longer and some of the hens waited until the last second to get out of the way.  It wouldn't be a big deal on level ground but on the hill there is no stopping the tractor if they don't get out of the way fast enough.  That being said, I wonder if my hens were playing chicken with the lawn mower. lol