Should You Get Chicks This Year? A Down-Home Guide to Deciding Every spring, the feed stores start filling up with those irresistible little bundles of fluff—chirping away in their warm brooders, just waiting for someone to take them home. Raising chickens in the backyard is a very popular hobby these[Read more]
We started last February with tiny baby chicks and now we have full sized chickens laying eggs! It’s very exciting for the kids to go out every day and check for eggs in the nesting boxes. Since my last post about moving the chickens to the coop, there has been[Read more]
This past week has been a busy one! Graduation at the local high school means lots of preparations, events, and parties! During the graduation ceremony, all I could think about was how much closer I’ve gotten to being there as a parent. Ok, it’s 7 years away. But I have[Read more]
Back in January, we took the plunge into backyard chicken life. Fast-forward a few chaotic, feather-filled months, and our once-fluffy chicks are now full-on tweens with opinions, sass, and an impressive ability to poop. This past month brought a major milestone: the big move from the garage brooder to their[Read more]
We’ve got adolescents! Our backyard chickens have become teenagers. Those little chicks that fit quite happily into an old guinea pig cage? They’re huge! And rapidly growing out of their enlarged brooder. They’re feathering out and looking a little rough around the edges as the feathers grow in, as young[Read more]
It’s been about four weeks since we brought home our little peeping puffballs and kicked off our backyard chickens journey—and wow, are these girls growing fast! I’m pretty sure they were already a week old when we picked them up, because now they’re practically feathered-out supermodels… except for their fuzzy[Read more]
Yesterday, we had to drive to the big city for an errand. It just so happened that an urban farm store was advertising that they received a delivery of chicks on the same day. Coincidence? I think not! After we dropped off some art pieces for a show, we drove[Read more]