This beautiful bird perched on Lilly’s shoulder is Intrigue, one of our new chickens. She is unique, like every member of our flock. Her love of perching (on objects and people) as well as a crooked tail and the tendency to raise her head whenever you approach is how she earned her name. We also … Read more
Social Chickens When we brought home our chickens this past Spring, we wanted to make sure they would be friendly and easy to manage. Since day one we have been giving our chickens daily attention, and they are all quite social, running close whenever we go near and allowing us to pet them or pick … Read more
Awesome surprise this week, we found our first eggs! Two of our Road Island Red hens are now egg laying age and the others shouldn’t be too far behind. Over the following few days we gathered 4 more small eggs. The hens still have some growing to do before we will be getting a regular … Read more
What a happy chicken coming over to check on me while I worked. I just finished a regular cleaning the chicken coop and wanted to share some new photos showing how it looks fully set up being used full time by our chickens. It seems to be working great! Both very hot and very rainy … Read more
About three months ago we brought home our first chickens. We went to local hardware store where we purchased 4 Road Island Red pullets and 2 Lavender Orpington pullets. We settled them into a brooder, provided food and water, constant cleaning, regular attention, and watched them grow. Both of our daughters could stare forever at … Read more