From the category archives:
When we started in with chickens a few years ago, we had five. Five was a good number for providing us with eggs, and for keeping in our small suburban yard. Then we up and moved, and found ourselves with a much larger yard. The chickens aged a bit and cut back on their laying, [...]
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We’ve had an incredibly wet spring, even for us here in the Pacific NorthWet, where things tend to sprout moss and algae in the blink of an eye. Sunday we had rain falling at half an inch an hour, for about three hours. That’s a lot of water. More than my garden needs, thank you. [...]
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Tonight we “installed” the new swarm. It’s even bigger than the last one, clearly the biggest by far we’ve gotten of all four wild swarms we have living here. The install wasn’t nearly as big a fail as the last one, as it’s not raining and it’s not cold, but the bees are not at [...]
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The chickies are 2 weeks old now, and they’re already feathering out nicely. I’m still curious to see what their final coloration will be, and really hoping that at least one is a blue hen. Crossing fingers! Looks like feathered legs are dominant, given the fact that most of them have feathers on their legs. [...]
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Last night, Todd went outside to check on things before bed. When he came in, he announced that he’d seen one lone fuzzy chick standing on the nest in front of Racer X. Yay! So we knew both that we had at least one successful hatching, and that hatching had commenced. I went out today [...]
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Last year at this time, I still didn’t have any garden beds, and we had no fruit trees planted, no blueberry bushes in the ground, no berry bed, no bees. How things change in a year! This year I’m not only planning for our own use and “for fun” plants, but I am planning ahead [...]
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It’s so hard in the spring, walking into the feed stores and the local Wilco farm store and seeing the big brooders full of cute, fuzzy, peeping chicks. So cute! So tempting! So far, I’ve resisted the urge to even touch the little balls of fluff, let alone purchase any, but it’s like some low-level [...]
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(Wow, time flies when you’re working on Holiday things and indoor crafts instead of tending the garden! Didn’t mean for two months to slip by without an update!) This holiday season, I did as I always do: I baked and cooked myself into a complete frenzy. Every year I throw a big party for friends [...]
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Since we had a hen go broody several months ago, we’ve been planning the expansion of the chicken coop. We started with five girls last year, and after acquiring three new girls from a neighbor and having 4 babies hatch from our broody hen’s clutch, we now have a total of 12 chickens. The coop [...]
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Seems appropriate…wasn’t that an apple falling on Chicken Little’s head which set the whole thing off? Two things I have a lot of around here right now: chickens and apples. The three new chickens are still skittish, but getting settled. The one missing a large patch of her back feathers will launch herself at me [...]
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