Category Archives: chickens
around here
A few of my favorite photos from May & the first part of June around here.
chicken math
It’s been a little over a year since we got our first chickens. Since then it’s been a bit like a math story problem. It goes like this: A family started out with six chicks. Over the next few months, … Continue reading
the pen
In order to avoid another fox vs. chicken incident, the chickens had to lose some of their freedom and are now relegated to the pen. We’d been planning to move their coop further away from the house anyway, but ended … Continue reading
Tira
A few weeks ago a fox took another of our chickens. This time I actually saw the fox coming out of the woods in broad daylight, right at the edge of our driveway, on the tails of two chickens who … Continue reading
chicken update
Our chickens are a little over 10 weeks old now. They should start laying at anywhere from 18-24 weeks, so we are hoping for eggs sometime toward the middle to end of August. They seem to be doing well and are … Continue reading
around here
There’s a bunch of blooming, buzzing, & birdwatching going on around here.
chicks
We’ve been talking about getting chickens for a few years and finally did it. We’ve had them for two weeks now and they have already grown like crazy. They are in a large wooden crate in our garage staying warm. … Continue reading