Pipping Through September 16th we began to see some activity out of the broody hen, Buff Red. She began standing, sitting, moving about in the nest and really paying attention to the eggs under her. Or so it seemed. The weather turned hot, in the low 90’s while most of the previous weeks were mid…
[show-rjqc id=”13″] August 29th one of our Buff Orpington hens went broody, so one less hen laying now.
Unhappy Roosters We were having our young cousins over for a visit. Our Welsummer roosters are definitely a little bit aggressive to unfamiliar people and the boys were sure to be the subject of their focus – after the hens of course. To give the matter some time to acclimate, I opened the chicken door…
Our first year with chickens, we opted to not have a rooster so the 5 roosters in our original batch of “pullet hens” that we bought from the local farm supply were packed away to the freezer for a future dining experience. We started with five each, Ameracuanas, Barred Rocks, and Silver Wyandottes. After culling…
[show-rjqc id=”12″] July 3rd was our first pullet egg from this Spring’s batch of chicks. For all of July 2017, we had 4 hens from 2016 and 25 hens from 2017 Spring chicks. There are also 3 roosters in the flock, so total flock numbers 32 chickens. There were 19 blue eggs from the one…
June 24th we added a pair of mixed breed goslings to our flock of chickens. They were about 4 days old when we brought them home. One an African Grey the other a Chinese Imbden, both mixed with a Grey Toulouse. They are just so cute! Photos below show them several weeks old. I’ll try…
There are as many different types of feeders for baby chicks to full grown chickens available as you might well imagine. We have tried a number of them, certainly no where near the full line of what is available. We started with the small round feeders we picked up at the local farm supply. These…
Earlier we announced that we had ordered a new chicken cam. Amazon as usual had the item here in a couple days, got it right and on time. So it took a few days of tinkering with the camera, testing out what it does and so forth. We are pretty happy with the camera, particularly…
March a fairly quiet month. No losses for March, so still 4 hens laying, 38 young ones growing up. They young ones moved out of the brooder into the new house on the 26th. Blue Egg count was 26 [show-rjqc id=”11″]