Trying something new today. These heat lamps are a pet peeve of mine. They are cheaply made. They are very hot. They can start fires if they fall. I just don’t particularly care for the product! But when the weather drops, I need to keep my chickens warm. For those who insist that’s not necessary,…
Category: Chickens
Wordless Wednesday: New Harvest
Two of my “new chicks” are finally laying… a sweet blue green egg… the hens are called Cream Legbars. For the jigsaw puzzle, go HERE.
March On!
Remember my chicken tractor? It has been in a state of disuse… since I now free range all my chickens out of a solid coop, I decided to sell the thing… and maybe make a bit of money. But first I asked Victoria if she wanted it. She did! This morning she drove over from…
Spring? Clean
Relatively warm overnight, with no snow, and enough wind to strip what had fallen back a great deal… made for a good night of calving! No entries into my “calf in a bag”! Yippee! That meant my morning could be turned over to something I’ve been neglecting… spring cleaning my chicken coop! Whoop. Whoop. I…
Yay
Update on Little Bitty. She made it through the night, though I really didn’t expect her to. She’s eaten and drank and things look good. Yay!
House Chicken
I had to move my chicks out to the coop today… They needed more room, they were making a dusty mess of my mud room, and the scent that lingered in the mud room was not the least Christmas-y. I worked on a conglomeration of wire dog crates and cardboard. They must be apart from…
Menagerie
Ugly/Cute plus 8 days… looking more Phyllis Diller-ish to me. While the big white tops are getting all the attention, there are some others with suspicious topknots as well. What a menagerie…. So long as they lay eggs, they can look however, I guess!
Chook
Her preferred seating is on top of the quart jar feeder. Cheeky little chook!
Crazy
Call me crazy. A month ago I decided to spend some money… The way prices are rising, I thought if I spent the money now, I might save myself some cash come spring, the normal time I would have spent it. So… I placed my order, and they arrived Wednesday. Yes, I’ve ordered baby chicks….
Psycho
Snow this morning. Wind. Clouds. Melting. Sunshine! Clouds. Sideways snow… Sunshine!! Since the day was being a wee bit psycho… I began dehydrating some eggs. I decided to dehydrate raw eggs, although some people choose to dehydrate scrambled eggs. Please do some research on your own if you decide to do this. There is a…
Eggs
I don’t know a great deal, but I do know that Avian Influenza has now been found in Wyoming. I need to do more research, but basically, it can cause illness and death in wild and domestic birds. Well. That’s not good. I rely quite a bit on my hens. If they end up catching…
Fail
It seems like I’ve tried everything. I’ve ordered baby chicks and had the post office get them here quickly. I’ve had the post office take days to get them here and every one was dead. I’ve tried to move broody hens and their eggs into quiet, secluded areas only to have them abandon the eggs….