No pictures this week as the camera is on the fritz and died just as I walked out to the barn. But the chicks have had a BIG week.
On Wednesday they hit four weeks old and now have most of their feathers. So that was the last night that they had a heat lamp on. […]
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Hen update
Posted in chickens on Aug 30th, 2008
As I alluded to the other day, we’re down a couple more hens due to very aggressive coyotes. They’re so not afraid of people that the other day Mike and I were able to get within 50 feet of one standing at the hen yard gate. The flock is now in their yard permanently after […]
You can hear the chicks peeping from outside the barn, pretty loudly, but they stop as soon as you slide the door open. Then they start back up slowly as you peek over the stall door at them. Still so cute that I can hardly stand it. I’m inviting everyone I know with kids to […]
Chicken Plucking / Picking
Posted in chickens on Aug 4th, 2008
I’ve got a lead on this chicken plucker, used. Anyone got any insight into whether a tabletop one is really reasonable for 50 chickens at a time? And whether this one is any good? The info online is scarce and we always used a big industrial looking one when I was a kid…
It’s the Dux […]
On Returning
Posted in chickens, growing challenge, vacation, gardens, eat local on Aug 3rd, 2008
Are you still here? It’s always interesting to see what you’ll return to after a week’s vacation.
This time around the finds included: 2 dead baby chicks, 3.75 pounds of peas, 4 pounds of bush beans, 5 BIG heads of broccoli, a million tiny green tomatoes and other sundry things. If I’d known how far behind […]
My New Boyfriend
Posted in chickens on Jul 21st, 2008
Mike has competition for my affections from Oscar the mottled bantam cochin rooster.
The hens seem to see me as a big rooster, or at least used to before we actually got a big rooster. Oscar, on the other hand, has decided that I’m a big hen and I am his favorite girl right now.
Anytime he […]
In addition to the possibility that Lulu might hatch a chick or two right around the end of the month, we’re also getting ready for the 50 red broiler chicks arriving on August 7 or 8. Because of course we don’t have enough to do around here.
We’re splitting the chickens three ways with two other […]