One of the details we didn’t really think through when we first got our laying hens a few years ago was what they would eat, how much it would really cost and whether or not we would always have the option of organic chicken feed for the Ladies. Luckily, our…
Well, it looks like Spring brings broody chickens. A few weeks ago, one of our Black Australorps went broody on us. She even plucked her belly feathers to help incubate her unfertilized eggs. Luckily, she’s been much more docile than our broody Ameraucana last spring and there have been…
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…
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,…
*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…
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.…
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…
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…