The chickens are still molting, I wrote about that earlier this month. No eggs, but the girls are finally getting some of their feathers back. Oh, and the morning noises are getting louder. Hopefully the eggs will follow soon. In the meantime, I ordered a box of 5,000 mealworms to crank up the protein in [...]
Very exciting in our backyard farm – the chickens are molting. All at the same time. Joy. The good parts about molting: 1. The girls don’t make as much noise (although that could be because the weather has changed) 2. Humm, that might be it When they molt, they don’t lay eggs, so we are [...]
Today, the chickens are exactly 28 weeks old and today we found the first two eggs. The first I found this morning when I went out to take the girls some morning treats (pear and apple cores, turnip tops, other yummy things) and I discovered the egg underneath the outdoor ledge where they like to [...]
All is right in the world again. We live in the house. The chickens live in their coop. And with the addition of an automatic chicken coop door, they now have access to their run during the day. The project of retrofitting the play house and adding a chicken run took about 4 weekends to [...]
The girls (and by girls, I mean chickens) are 5 weeks old this week and a complete barrel of laughs. We have been converting the playhouse to their coop and building a run alongside, and last night, while we were out there attaching galvanized wire to the run, the girls were inside the coop, vying [...]
After one week with the chicks, all I have to say is, oh, is there a lot of poop. Yes, we have chickens. Not sure I can explain all the reasoning behind it (some might have been peer pressure), but since I found out you could have chickens in your backyard, I was kind of [...]
