Articles by talkingriver
Hi! My name is Adrienne (or Ada), and I started raising chickens in the Spring of 2012. I'm in LOVE, and really enjoying the education and entertainment of BYC. Here's a little chronicle of how we finally settled on a coop, and of our first ten feathered children.
A friend was raising the...
June 4, 2014
This is my third year raising chickens! Having rehomed my two-year-olds to a nice hobby farm, where they can live out their natural lives in peace and contentment, I am left with just three one-year-old hens. Rather than get chicks from a hatchery, I decided to raise two sets of...
We've gotten our first egg at 21 weeks -- a demure and lovely blue gem. One Araucana, Maybelle, is the most likely suspect. I'm going to use this page to document the gifts we receive from our 9 ladies, so this is the first!
She left it for us in the pen. I've left golf balls in...