Our rooster has finally found his Doodle Doo… The only catch is, he sings from inside the coop between 6:00 and 6:30 every single morning now. Yep, you read that right…he doesn’t leave the coop and stand in the brilliant sunshine to sing his song, he does it from the…
Last night, while checking on Broody’s food and water, we found this… Yep, that’s an actual egg! And guess what? She wasn’t laying on it!!! She was walking around, eating, drinking and being calm! Amazing! Do you see the egg at the bottom of the photo?And Broody at the top,…
Ugh…Broody is back in solitary confinement. This time, though, we put her in the outdoor chick brooder instead of the little one in the garage since she beat herself up last time. Why is she in there again? Well, because she is officially on the cull list 🙁 We tried…
Well, after last weekends post about our broody hen we decided to put Blondie in solitary confinement for a couple of days. We decided to use our brooder (Version #2) and put it in the garage where the temperature this time of year is still pretty cool. (We’ve had a couple of laughs…
Whelp…we have our first broody hen. This is Blondie (called that because of all her yellow coloring…all our other Ameracaunas have a rustier coloring to their feathers) and she’s officially gone broody over the past week. Being that she’s a little over a year old and it’s spring, I guess…
Well, I think it may have been over due, but we put the newest Newbies in with the Ladies today! The only catch is that we haven’t expanded the run yet! I think it’ll be fine for a couple of weeks, though. We’ll get to it…just not right now 🙂…
These little cuties will be giving us… A lot more of these! WooHoo!!! We’ve gone through periods of egg shortages this winter, but I’m thinking/hoping that won’t be the case next year 😉
Happy Monday everyone! What a week it’s been! We had beautiful weather pretty much every day this week except for Sunday, which was absolutely disgusting…windy and grey and dusty and gross…so darn windy that plastic to one of my hoop houses is pretty much torn to shreds. We attached a…