Chickens

They Don’t Understand

January 5, 2010

It’s just too cold to play outside!  It’s only about 10° on a warm day! We’re keeping the chickens in the coop where it’s warm.  Yes, there’s a heater going in there.  Everyone pretty much minds their own business and finds something to do to keep busy.  But, they really, really want to go outside! [...]

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What on Earth?

December 27, 2009

What happened while we were sleeping?  We went into the coop on Christmas Eve . . everything was normal.  No one let us out on Christmas Day (and we weren’t happy about that!).   We were let out of the coop the day after Christmas and . . oh, my goodness . . everything was white!  [...]

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Week 51 Stash Report

December 20, 2009

There was an addition to my stash this week . . even though I didn’t do it.  I promise . . I didn’t do anything . . I just opened the door when the UPS man rang the doorbell! A friend sent me the cutest kit to make a chicken quilt.  It’s a great quilt [...]

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Late Bloomers

November 27, 2009

Finally!  A second Ameraucana is laying.  There are four of them.  One . . Smokey . . has been laying consistently for a couple of months.  Everyone told us, and the research we had done said the chickens would start laying when they were about 5 months old.  Not true!  The Red Stars started laying [...]

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Little Red Hen

November 13, 2009

Have I said lately how much I love my red star chickens?  Not only are they egg laying machines . . there’s hardly ever a day I don’t get 6 brown eggs from six red hens, but they are sweet!  Really, they love being petted and “talking” to me.  The Ameraucanas . . 4 of [...]

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My Chickens are So . .

October 31, 2009

Chicken!  Yesterday it was windy . . very windy.  The kind of windy that reminds me I’m too close to Kansas!  I was in the kitchen working and from there I can see the chicken coop/run.  It was a gorgeous sunny day but I noticed there were no chickens in the run.  They love a [...]

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