Posts by Hestlauss

I am so sad. We keep our 4 hens in a chicken tractor but let them out into the pasture for a few hours when we get home from work so they can run around and take dirt baths. We've been doing this for a year now without any problems but...

  So Happy- first egg (yesterday) is the size of a bantam egg but she gave me another larger egg this morning!  

Babbette my Salmon Favorelle Abigail (Abby) my Australorp Fiona my Speckled Sussex Twila my Ameraucana I have not named my Cuckoo Maran or my Plymouth Rock yet

One Americauna, one Cuckoo Maran and one Plymouth Rock. I am expecting 3 more chicks this week: an Astralorp, a Speckled Sussex and a Salmon Favorelle. I don't plan on keeping all 6 but purchased extra chicks to make sure the ones I...

Here is my coop which would never have become a reality without massive amounts of construction help from my fantastic Brother-in-law. The coop is 4'x8' and the "girls" love it. They figured out the ladder pretty quick but I am having...

I ordered 3 more chicks but one came in 2 weeks early and it is too small to go in the 3 chicks that I got that are now almost 3 weeks old. I put the new speckled Sussex chick into a small cage by herself but put it up again the larger...

I joined a while back and have been busy trying to choose what chicks to order. I finally narrowed it down to six chicks that will go into the chicken tractor I am building. I can't tell you how happy I was when I got the call that the...