Finally! The new coop is complete. With just a few small finishing touches to make this week – it will be ready to house our chickens for years to come. It’s just in time too – as our 18 little
Keeping Our Chickens Happy In The Winter
The last two weeks on the farm have been filled with a lot of snow, wind and freezing cold temperatures. It’s about this time of year that most of our friends and family start asking us how the “girls” are
Chicken Talk – Raising Our Hens
All in all – I would have to say that the most talked about of any venture we have going on at the farm are the chickens. “The Coop” as we call it – is usually the first place visitors
News From The Coop – The Hens are Happy!
Of all the things we do on the “farm” – the one that seems to receive the most attention from everyone are our chickens. The chickens were the first ever true residents of the farm – heading out in the
Happy First Birthday Girls – The Chickens Turn 1
As Jim and I took a small break last week between tasks at the ‘Farm’, we began to think of where we were last year at this time with our dream. We sat up under the garden pergola and scanned
Chickens sentenced to 6 months in a minimum security prison
While working at the farm this past weekend – we decided that it is time. Our girls, the chickens, need to have more of an assigned “designated area”. During the building of the farm, the chickens have truly been free
Predator vs. Prey
So by now you know our chickens……Amelia, George, Big Momma, Sherman, etc…. Of course, every time we go out to ‘The Farm’ they look for us to let them out of the coop so they can roam the land. Now
What are you building? A playhouse, doghouse…A chicken what????
So, how do you get eggs when you don’t have a rooster? Seems like a dumb question now, but a sincere question I had a few years back. Chickens were a subject that I knew very little about. The only