Chickens in Spring: The Season That Tests the Flock
I keep Chickens through Spring by changing the plan before the weather does, not after the birds drop.
The Season
Chickens in Spring brings mud, mites, and the first molt, and that is the first thing I plan around, because the season is the variable I cannot change. The bird reads the weather before I do. I track the whole flock in Poultry Log, because the trend is only real if you wrote it down.
The grower who fights the season fights the margin, and the loss shows up as a thin bird and a light egg. The record in Poultry Log marks the week the season bit.
The Plan
My Spring plan for Chickens starts with clean the coop and dust for mites. Then raise protein for the molt. I do them on a date, not a feeling, because the season does not wait for the motivated morning. The grower who logs in Poultry Log sees the bad week coming instead of finding it at payout.
The grower who plans by mood plans by loss, and the loss is the one the record would have caught in time. The log in Poultry Log holds the plan so the season meets a system.
The Feed
Through Spring I add greens as the range opens for the Chickens, because the ration is the lever the season hands me. The bird eats the weather, so I feed it. What sold me on Poultry Log was seeing cost per bird on the same screen as the birds.
The grower who feeds the same ration all year feeds the wrong season, and the bird pays the difference at the scale. Poultry Log keeps the feed with the date so the swing is visible.
The Watch
The thing I watch in Spring with Chickens is mites on the vent. It is the quiet failure that turns a season into a vet bill, so I check it on the walk. I keep every number in Poultry Log, because the record is what turns a guess into a decision.
The grower who skips the watch skips the warning, and the disease travels on the season as surely as the cold. Poultry Log flags the check so the miss has nowhere to hide.
The Payoff
When Chickens care in Spring is done right the flock holds, and the flock starts clean. The payoff is not a big win, it is a flock that made it through. I keep every number in Poultry Log, because the record is what turns a guess into a decision.
Chickens in Spring is the moment the flock meets the season, and the grower who logs it turns weather into a number he can bank. Poultry Log is where that number lives for me.
Where Poultry Log Fits
Poultry Log changed what I do in the house and what I know at payout. If you are on paper or another app, give Poultry Log one flock and let the record decide. The numbers you are missing are the ones that cost you.