Recent content by hippiefarmer

The breeder we bought our peeps from said 2-3 eggs per week, often more.

We just started our first group of Black Copper Marans chicks. They are about 3 weeks old now, and there is one that is clearly a roo. He had an orange spot on his head as a chick, so I picked him out of the day old flock so I could have one to name and know which was which, haha. Since day 1...

Haha - thanks, MS Deb... I had read a poorly written post elsewhere where an individual touched on the word Marans and it still was not clear whether or not the "s" was a part of the word, or added to be plural. So, if I'm speaking about more than one Marans, the proper term would be Marans'...

Wow - thanks for the replies and tips, everyone! Regarding the chicken wire: we live on a horse farm. While we get an occassional stray dog (and I mean occassional... like, once in 3 years), and we hear coyotes, our property is surrounded by electric fencing and horse scents. The side of the...

Hi there! My husband and I live on a farm that has been in my husband's family for nearly a century, and are interested in living more sustainably. We board horses, have chickens, 2 dogs, 7 cats and 2 goats. I was so excited 2 years ago when we decided to get pets that make us breakfast! We...

Our coop - pre-snow failure (our chickens were mesmerized when a friend started serenading them on the fiddle): OH NO:

Many years ago, before acquiring chicks to keep, I found a friend to donate some to, if I raised them in my basement. I ended up walking out of the store with 6 chicks and 4 ducklings - the store gave me one of the 4 ducklings for free because he was unable to stand up, was 2 inches smaller than...

My husband and I have a beautiful chicken coop - he built his children a log playhouse many years ago, and it has since been repurposed. We put up a run that is about 10x20 feet, but allow the chickens to free range out of the coop/run during the day. The run had deer netting stretched over the...