Baby Chicks – First Day Out with Momma Hen At a week old, the Momma hen got a chance to take the baby chicks on their first outing, and she headed them to section of the garden now covered in weeds and tall grass. One of hens from last year, Sophia Red, came over to…
Encouraging Another Broody Hen Now that we have had our first successful hatch with a first time broody hen, we got to wondering, can we repeat the process? From reading a number of both online and offline articles on broody hens we learned hens go broody most often in the spring and fall of the…
Rooster Time Out Hunter is currently the top of the pecking order for the roosters. He thinks he is top of the pecking order for everything and everyone else too. Recently, he has been attempting to sneak up behind me, and either challenge or attack me. Most of the time he just gets close, flaps…
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…
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…