Posted in urban chickens on Feb 28th, 2007
So here we are, twelve days into the egg experiment and all is going fairly well. Candling is very cool - in all the chickens we had, and eggs we incubated when I was a kid, we never candled any of them. Of course, my method is fairly primitive - I’m using Mike’s old dive […]
Posted in urban chickens on Feb 20th, 2007
Well, to catch everyone up, here are the events of the last week:
Valentine’s Day - Mike and I played it casual as we do every year. We exchanged cards, he brought me flowers and I made dinner.
Thursday - Phyl’s eggs arrived at last. I put all 6 under her and she was happy as a […]
Posted in urban chickens on Feb 14th, 2007
So, slowly, slowly my girls are becoming more friendly. Most mornings they come towards me when I go into the coop - looking for morning treats. But, Lucy is the smartest of them all. She’s learned to eat cracked corn out of my hand. So sweet! Especially because she’s the biggest of them all. Penny […]
Posted in urban chickens on Feb 8th, 2007
My friend Denise on the peninsula has agreed to take any chicks I can hatch. Yay! So yesterday we ordered 6 standard size eggs (about all little Phyl can handle, and maybe more (we’ll see). We ordered 3 Cuckoo Maran eggs and 3 Dominique eggs. We’re hoping to hatch 4-5 of them and then hoping […]
Posted in urban chickens on Feb 7th, 2007
Phyl continues to be broody. I’ve tried giving her ice cubes to sit on - they just made her wet and crabby. I’ve been pulling her out a couple times a day, but she has a bite to eat and then goes right back. The last two nights I’ve turned out the light and put […]
Posted in urban chickens on Feb 2nd, 2007
This week I was once again traveling for work, spending 5 days in Orlando. I left the house about 5:30am Sunday morning. Mike didn’t collect the eggs again until late Tuesday night. He mentioned that he was only getting one or two a day, instead of the 2 or 3 we’ve been getting the past […]
