Recent content by kekstrom

Love that Kendra is home. Love those little chickies. And love how well they are getting along outside.

Hahaha, don't we all remember the awkward teenage years.... . Sparkle's black feathering is just beautiful. My daughters call it a necklace, and well, Sparkle's necklace is beautiful! I can't wait for mine to feather out as she grows.

Hahaha, uh oh! Well I'll make sure to stray away from the 'clearance' tanks at my co-op.... I'll take the LONG way around for my supplies. Haha. Chicken math.

Hahaha, she is wild looking huh?! And I agree, super cute. I love our EEs temperaments. Docile and friendly with lots of personality.

Hahaha, she really does, you are right! One day this week, all the 5 week olds didn't have their head feathers, then the next day they were all sprouting wildly untamed feathers. Haha. Thank you!

Updated pics of the chicks, littles and bigs. Sophia, EE, 4 weeks old: Izzie, CM, 4 weeks old: Betty, BA, 4 weeks old: Blanche, LB, 5 weeks old: Dorothy, EE, 5 weeks old: Mrs. McGillicuddy, GSL, 5 weeks old: (and a face only a mother could love) The big chicks, 12 weeks old...

Same here! And I scoop and add to run as needed. Right now, about twice a week is plenty, but I know it could change. I check the hen house just about every day and if it smells fresh, looks fresh, then I wait. I think the PDZ helps with that because it neutralizes the ammonia smell.

Izzie, 4 weeks old: She is super sweet, still gets into trouble with the big chickies. Like a toddler, she is testing her limits. Haha.

Betty, or as she has earned this past week, "Betty the Brave". She has gained a lot of confidence and does not shy away from the bigger chicks, and they don't mind her either. I even watched her steal away a worm from the big chicks and hold her own. Yum! 4 weeks:

I figured I needed to update my weekly pics, if not to share with the EE world, at least for me to keep a record. Sophia, 4 weeks old: Dorothy, 5 weeks old: (she is looking wildly fierce here, haha) Rose, 12 weeks:

Well, its official, Blanche is a lap chicken. She is the first to hop up onto my lap when I sit down, and she follows me around like a lost puppy. 5 weeks old: She also has somehow pulled off one of her toenails... so I cleaned it up the day it happened when the toe was freshly...

OMG. Way cute! And the dark ones are much more obvious in 3D, haha. They look happy, healthy, and most importantly... FLUFFY!

Just a piece of advice. The deep litter method is meant to use small, natural microorganisms to break down manure and other bedding into soil (that you could then use in your garden, yum). However, DE will kill lots of those good microorganisms that you want and need to have around. I had...

They are adorable! Sorry about your ones that didn't hatch... perhaps just bad handling of the eggs before they got to you? The dark ones are definitely hard to tell, but in some of your pics they are more obvious. The partridge ones are so cute with their little chipmunk stripes...

Aw! Yay.... how exciting!