Category: Chickens

Jersey Giants Update

White Jersey Giants at 14 Weeks So it has been about 14 weeks since we received our Jersey Giant chicks from the hatchery.  It is amazing how quickly they have grown.   The White Jersey Giants we ordered as a straight run, so no idea whether we have pullets or cockerels.  With our other chicks […]

New Chicks Arrived As Expected

New Home Hatched Chicks for May 2018 As expected, the broody hen started hatching right on time. May 6th was the first hatch date, and the rest hatched out by the 8th, though the last one might have been the night of the 7th. Of the 10 eggs she started with, 9 hatched.  The last [...]

Baby Chicks Coming for Spring of 2018

Early to mid-May we should be hearing the sound of new baby chicks. One of the Buff Orpington hens has decided to go broody.  She is set on 10 eggs.  The first day she began to set was April 16th, a Monday.  I picked her up, and of course she pecked me pretty hard several [...]

Automation of the Chicken Door – Arduino Starter Kit

So early in January, the automation of the chicken door started and the Arduino starter kit came in….a good way to start of 2018.  It seemed to me that using a microprocessor like the Arduino would be a good place to start, because it could process several factors in the process of the door opening.  […]

Chicken Killers – Dog Attack

Chicken Killers The Buff Orpington momma hen and two of her ten chicks cruelly killed by someone's dogs. It pretty well goes that if you have chickens, you will have predators. And we have had our share.  Foxes, raccoons, opossums, snakes, and hawks have all been visitors in search of a meal.  We  have owls [...]

November 2017 Egg Production

[show-rjqc id=”16″] Really expected to see a slow down in egg production during November.  Some but not much.  Mostly the four hens from 2016 as they stopped production to take some time off to molt. Also a couple more hens decided to go broody and set on the nest.  Seems to me like it might […]

IP Cameras in the Chicken Coop

Monitoring the chicken coop with a web cam?  Yes, I do.  Several of them in fact. And even send video to live streaming onto YouTube from time to time, like when the hen goes broody and the chicks are about to hatch.  It is a great deal of fun to hear from the granddaughters that [...]

Drama in the Chicken Coop

Finally, Another Broody Hen Our efforts last month to get a hen to go broody met without much success. Buff Yellow, would love to get on the nest full of eggs and sit for hours. About 4 hours. Then she had enough and went about the rest of her day. A few times one of [...]