upstate NY
Our FIRST EGG!!
I guess building the nesting boxes worked! So Happy!!
5 Gallon Nesting Boxes DIY for My Chickens
In hopes of boosting (creating!) productivity, I hooked my ladies up:
August 2016 Chicken Update
Tomato Hornworm Chicken Treat
Today’s chicken menu, one organically-well-fed Tomato Hornworm, if you can find it!
The Emotional Roller Coaster of My New Chicken Ownership
I have wanted to have chickens forever. So we moved to a place where we could:
After moving in and getting the garden going, we got the chicks, two guinea keets and four barred rocks.
Then we got two more guinea keets and four Easter Eggers (they lay colored eggs!):
We built a “Hoop Coop”
And learned all about our fowl:
THEN I got the cookies scared out of me:
And in the same day, learned how much I love my chickens!
So this is where I am with it now:
What ways do you keep your chickens safe when they are running around? I have also learned from a fellow homesteader that hawks are deterred by crows, so at Halloween I will be stocking up on life-size decoys!!
A Quick Break at Yaddo Gardens
We Built a Hoop Coop Chicken Tractor
This month has been a busy one! Gardening and chickening in addition to fun kids’ activities; I have been behind in video editing/posting. Who has time? Hahaha, anyway… here’s our amateur Hoop Coop chicken tractor build :).
Dust Baths for Farm Fowl
Our New Arrivals
We went and picked up our first installment of livestock! We got four Barred Plymouth Rocks and two Guinea keets from Dean Family Farm not far from here! What a great experience.