The eggs are chirping, the eggs are chirping! No pipping as yet but we are getting closer to hatch day. And with the day looming closer I have to be prepared for what I am going to do with these cute little baby chickens I am helping to bring to life. One of the first [...]
I currently have five laying hens and yesterday I picked up eight eggs. It’s not what you think though. I was being tricked by Rhoda, my Rhode Island Red. It’s a not too long of a story and it will get you updated on the latest with my young biddies that are now pullets so [...]
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I spend a large amount of time searching the internet and frequenting forums (when I should be doing something else) and came across a plan for a portable chicken coop. Probably as late as it is in the year you are not thinking about building more coops but perhaps next year you have plans of [...]
I’m so excited! Jethro is getting a new home, chicken coop, or whatever you want to call it. My husband starting working on it on Saturday and it is coming together nicely. We started on a piece of scratch paper with the chicken coop design. Fancy huh! As you can see our plans are not [...]
I am so excited! My husband is the best and when I kept complaining about the mother hen needing to take her babies out on the ground because they were so cooped up in the pen…what did he do? He made me a chicken tractor. I couldn’t wait for him to finish and I put [...]