Yurkanin Farms

We love our birds

And the final extension to limit the free-ranging to a few hours at the end of the day.  A small closable tunnel leads from it to underneath the kid's trampoline to give the birdies a much bigger roaming area and some extra shady outside from the summer sun:

It all started out so small:

The Ladies:

The Benevolent leader: Scrappy, a White Amber-link.

She has HARD molts:

Waffles: First Lieutenant, a Barn-Leg mix (peach colored eggs):

Buttercup, a Buff Brahma, and Darlin, a Black Australorp:

Buttercup as a wee lass:

Darlin as a white-chested tyke:

Our Dahlia, our very contemplative Speckled Sussex:

Dahlia, as the adorable chick:

Bullet, the troublemaking Blackstar Sex-Link:

Tiny Bullet, with Frodo,a rooster since rehomed:

The particular Pandora, a Silver-Laced Wyandotte:

Pandora as a pup:

And Cookie, our Cuckoo Marans and the most motherly, front left with Darlin, Pandora, and Buttercup:

And as a little Cookie:

And the two additions for 2012, Lola, the Light Brahma (with no leg-feathers, hmph) and Jackie, the Buff Orpington.

And our dearly departed, deaths by irresponsible dog owners:

Bunny, a true but very mean Ameraucana:

Bilbo, a Plymouth Barred Rock:

And the one that made raising chickens a joy, the jolly Belle, a Light Brahma: