Chicken farming is getting more emotionally stressful by the day. Five out of six of our chickie babies are doing very well – running amok, eating and pooping, escaping into the garden every time we open the coop door. However, our shyest little chick, one of the Black Cochins, Daisy, seems to have come down … (Read More)
Oh my goodness, our chicks are so friggin’ cute! Our new babies have so much personality and are really starting to come out of their shells {ba dum dum}. During this first week, I’ve been obsessively researching the reason behind every little characteristic they display and every move that they make. We noticed on the … (Read More)
Peas & rice, the coop is finally done! The plastic corrugated roof was installed today, and we moved the coop into it’s permanent place in the vegetable garden. My neighbors, Aisha and Dawn, and my mailman, Tony, all pitched in to help us carry the coop to it’s new spot in the backyard. We attached … (Read More)
Add to our brood: 3 Speckled Sussex {9 days old, born 06.20.09}+ 3 Cochins {approx. 4 weeks old}. We’ll have to adopt out 2 or 3 of them, because our coop wasn’t built to house so many and the state minimum purchase for chicks is 6. Until then, here are some pics of our new … (Read More)
We just finished the painting phase of the chicken coop project and we’re just about ready to move the [future] chickens inside. The roof installation comes next, and then we’ll move it into the old raspberry patch in the garden. Finally, we’ll decorate it in a Mexican “Dia de los Muertos de Pollo” theme inspired … (Read More)
My dad and I have a long history of building wacky projects together, so when I decided this week that I wanted backyard chickens I knew he would be down to rally for the cause. All it took was a quick phone call, and my dad and I were in Home Depot the very next … (Read More)