My little farm girl found a mink this morning… a live one in our chicken coop.
Category: backyard chickens
Crazy chicken lady in the making?
I’m pretty excited about my chicken breeding program. So excited that I went and got 22 more chicks this week for the homestead. Our total number of chickens is now 59, yep fifty nine chickens! Nathan still doesn’t think I have a problem…
We have hatching…
Over the last three weeks we’ve been monitoring the humidity and temperature of our homemade “Coolerbator” egg incubator. My last post was about counting our chickens before they’d hatched.. So far, our 15 mail order chicks have arrived and are thriving. Today our incubated eggs are cheeping & beginning to hatch! The eggs have been […]
We’re leaving the suburbs for farm life next week!
We are just counting down the days until moving day. I’m both excited and a bit shocked that moving day is just a few days away. The walls are literally lined with packed boxes, all the obvious things are packed… now we have all the hidden spaces to pack up (the garage, the attic, the […]
Tales from the backyard flock: Are they cooked or do they have chicks in them?
For the last week, maybe two, we have had significantly fewer eggs each day from our six laying hens. Initially I thought that the hens that were not laying had nutritional imbalances since they’ve been eating chicks starter food (against our wishes). We’ve recently integrated our baby chicks to our adult flock, our Rhode Island Reds […]
Introducing new chicks to your existing flock or “And then there were two, flocks.”
You may have caught the news in passing here or over on Nathan’s blog. We grew our flock of chickens this spring. “We ended up bringing home a dozen chicks: 2 Buff Orpingtons, 2 White Leghorns, 2 Black Sex Link, 3 Amberlinks, and 3 Golden Laced Wyandottes. That will certainly grow our flock of 3 […]
When your backyard flock grows. From chicken rearing to turkeys!
We were out of chick starter so a trip to the local farm supply store was on the agenda for the day. When visiting the farm supply store we have to visit the baby chick area if the kids are with us because kids LOVE to see baby birds and rabbits (even though the backyard […]
Keeping chickens & eating them: Thoughts on our first experience processing
It’s a cold and gloomy day here, we are in the upper 50’s this afternoon and the vibe is very lazy. Everly has been watching childrens movies on the couch today, specifically snow related holiday ones. She knows the seasons are changing and is excitedly dreaming of lots of snow this winter. I’ve been spending some much […]
Then Helga Crowed…
It was a nice sleepy morning, the outdoor temperature was cool enough to leave the windows open and the AC off. The days have been getting shorter and the mornings sleepier plus the baby sort of slept through the night snuggled in our bed with us. As the sun began to rise the sound “cawwwwwr” made it’s […]