backyard chickens

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Chicken Down

Chicken Down

Tuesday, after an incredibly long day at work, I walked through the yard, gathered eggs, put on my muck boots and headed into the coop to feed and water the chickens. I grabbed their water and turned on the hose, then went to the scratch bucket to give the ladies some treats before filling their feed bin. Then, inexplicably, I…
May 23, 2013
Chickens are Funny Creatures

Chickens are Funny Creatures

Sometimes I find myself wondering if the Ladies are looking at me with expressions of curiosity or if they are trying to figure out how to take me down and eat me alive.  Do you ever catch those glances?All joking aside, they really are funny creatures, aren't they?xoxo,MEnjoy this space?  Please vote for me by simply clicking here. Thank you!
May 3, 2013
Chickens love Greens

Chickens love Greens

*chirp, chirp, chirp*Newbie #1, "What the heck is that green thing?!"Newbie #2, "I don't know!  Go check it out!"Newbie #1, "I'm not checking it out!  You go check it out!"Hen #1, "What the hell?!  Are you guys kidding me?  If you don't eat that, I'm gonna come over there and eat it myself!  Dumbasses!"Newbie #1, "Oh shit!  Did you see…
April 21, 2013
Transitional (Chick) Housing

Transitional (Chick) Housing

Our newest set of Newbies has officially been moved into their outdoor brooder and are very happy for it.  I think our indoor brooder was getting a little too cramped for them because they have been incredibly busy meeting the neighbors, pecking around, giving themselves dirt baths and exploring their new digs. They have their own water, food and a heat lamp…
April 9, 2013
The Great Chicken Escape

The Great Chicken Escape

A couple of mornings ago I walked to the coop to give the Ladies some leftovers and noticed, out of the corner of my eye, one of our Ameraucanas on the outside of the coop, right by my feet!  Thoroughly confused, I let her into the coop.I couldn't, for the life of me, figure out how she escaped!  Maybe she…
March 26, 2013
Brooders – Versions 1 & 2

Brooders – Versions 1 & 2

When we got our first batch of chickens 2 years ago, we really had no clue what we were doing.  We got 5 Ameracaunas thinking that we'd wind up with 3 (after looking at statistics we found online we thought that maybe 1 would be a rooster and maybe 1 would die). We kept the chicks in a big cardboard…
February 29, 2012