Our poor chickens still don’t have proper names. I never actually gave them the Little Women names… I don’t think Dennis would ever remember. How much higher can I hoist the geek flag, though? There are three that are hard to tell at a quick glance (for me), I actually have to kind of study [...]
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Monday, September 28, 2009
It’s been slightly less than forever since I did an update on the yard and house. We’re starting to think about how to prepare for winter, and seeing what we can get out of the garden for fall and winter. We also need to make sure the chicken coop is well-insulated, and we’ve already gotten [...]
Bath time! The chickens like to hang out under our porch when it’s hot & they get really into their dust baths. We now have names for four of the hens. There’s HH (pronounced with a jaw-clenched-upper-crust accent) who used to be the head hen, but seems to have been knocked down a notch. There’s [...]
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We found a new home for our rooster yesterday. He’s very vocal and it was bothering our neighbors, and we’re not supposed to have a rooster anyway. He’s gone from being the king of our big, sunny yard to being at the bottom of the rooster pecking order now that he lives with an older, [...]
Hey, baby. I put a little chicken update over on my other blog, please check it out!
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
I know I’ve been quiet. I’ve got a million things on my mind and a post to that effect that I’m drafting. Just can’t concentrate right now. Anyway, we put the chickens in their coop for the first time tonight. I’m really worried about them getting too cold. The photo above is of the one [...]
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We have had such a wonderful weekend here… two full days of sunshine. On Saturday we made up a pen out of four posts and some burlap & bird netting and we let the chickens into the yard for the first time. They loved it, and it made me really look forward to when we [...]
Any closer and I will totally peck at your face. Oh, hai! The girls have begun determining their pecking order in earnest, I believe. They have these ginormous beaks now, so, hey. They are very funny and cute, still, even though they’re getting all scraggly around the neck. When I come sit by their bin, [...]
Hey, what’s up. Well, all six chicks are still with us. And, we have flight. I caught one on top of the water container and a few minutes later, watched one fly up to the top of the bin. Time for the netting! This week the tail feathers started coming in and they’re really busy [...]
taking a drink Well, we made it through week one. The chicks will be 7 days old on Tuesday. We found out they were a day old when we got them and they hadn’t been vaccinated, so we switched over to medicated food. They’re learning how to roost and scratch — and boy are they [...]
