2018 Coming to a Close
End Of The Year – Assessment So What do you think? Not a particularly great way to end the year. 2018 was a decent year all in all. There were plenty of eggs to be collected and shared. Lots of entertainment, and perhaps most important for us on our little patch in the woods, is […]
Mink Attack
Wow! What a Killer! It was the night before Halloween. We noticed some commotion going on in the chicken coop on the coop ip cameras. When the particular camera was selected it was clear we had a problem. I headed down to the coop as quickly as I could get my boots on and get […]
They are not all roosters
After some months now, we have finally decided that of the 4 white Jersey Giant straight run chicks we ordered from Hoover Hatchery, 1 of them is a hen. Straight run was the only option available for this breed, otherwise we would have ordered 3 hens and 1 rooster, but got just the opposite. It [...]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 [...]Baby Chicks – First Day Out with Momma Hen
Baby Chicks - First Day Out with Momma Hen At a week old, the Momma hen got a chance to take the baby chicks on their first outing, and she headed them to section of the garden now covered in weeds and tall grass. One of hens from last year, Sophia Red, came over to [...]Encouraging Another Broody Hen
Encouraging Another Broody Hen Now that we have had our first successful hatch with a first time broody hen, we got to wondering, can we repeat the process? From reading a number of both online and offline articles on broody hens we learned hens go broody most often in the spring and fall of the [...]Unhappy Roosters
Unhappy Roosters We were having our young cousins over for a visit. Our Welsummer roosters are definitely a little bit aggressive to unfamiliar people and the boys were sure to be the subject of their focus - after the hens of course. To give the matter some time to acclimate, I opened the chicken door [...]Our First Broody Hen – A Buff Orpington
Our first year with chickens, we opted to not have a rooster so the 5 roosters in our original batch of “pullet hens” that we bought from the local farm supply were packed away to the freezer for a future dining experience. We started with five each, Ameracuanas, Barred Rocks, and Silver Wyandottes. After culling […]
Feeders for baby chicks to grown chickens
There are as many different types of feeders for baby chicks to full grown chickens available as you might well imagine. We have tried a number of them, certainly no where near the full line of what is available. We started with the small round feeders we picked up at the local farm supply. These […]