The darker hen is the Queen of the Backyard, everyone must obey her or else, the lighter one is Honey B she has a bad leg due to the fox attack when they were living at their original home, this 2 hens were the only survivors of the attack so they came to live with us :) Honey B talks and sings...
My family and I are enjoying our chickens so much, I am in the process of redesigning the backyard just for my flock, I also want to be able to sell eggs too. Our current project is under way, converting the shed into a nice hen house and rebuilding the run.
I am a stay at home mom, wife to a...
We wanted to use materials that we can recycle, all the metal and wood plus windows and paint are all recycled items. We took our time to find the pieces, we posted online, searched the local papers and drove around town. Some suggestion we didn't follow and in the future if our flock grows...
Thank you all for responding and confirming what my little ones are
Captain Fuzzypants got his name because he looks like he is wearing fancy pants
My hubby calls him Sir Harry!
My husband went out one day and brought back 5 new chickens, 2 silver wyandotte hens, 1 silkie rooster and 2 silkie chicks or they are suppose to be silkies but the young man was unclear about them.
I thought I would stop by and post their pics and get everyone's opinions on my suppose to be...
thank you for a good laugh
our hens got the meter reader last month, he came in through the gate totally focused on reading our meter when a whole flock of chickens, half ran half flew straight for him. I never saw a grown man run so fast out the gate
a month before that cable men were up the...
Here is the EggSmart coop
https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=91237-the-coop-ala-strong
I hope I did this right and it comes through correctly
If it wasn't for everyone here at BYC, I don't know if I could have gotten started on ours
Our australorp is solid black with a green sheen, so we named her Crow and her sister Raven
This is Teriyaki, I told her that if she didn't stop being mean to all the other hens, she would end up a teriyaki dish
We also have Indy (Indiana Jones) because she is always exploring and her sister...
Name: Lil Louise
Breed: Barnyard Mutt
Age: 1 1/2 yrs old
She did not approve of her picture being taken
Name: Wade & Roo Magoo
Breed: OEGB
Age: 18 wks old (we think)
It is so hard to get a good shot of these guys, they came together as a pair and he thinks he is the man of the yard...
that is great! so glad to hear good neighbors and asking first
our neighbors know we have hens and they toss fresh stuff over the fence for them out of their daughters garden, the lady told me that her daughter plants way too much stuff and it goes to waste so she brings it home and dumps it...
Our Roo MaGoo has got his voice, his is around 15 weeks old, for the longest time he just squeaked and sounded like a dog's chew toy. When our hens do the egg song he joins right on in. He makes all kinds of funny sounds, mimics the girls and has a full range of vocals
This our talker, he...
My EE's are all grown up, Buckeye laid her 1st egg the other day and her second egg this morning and Sweetie is due to lay any day now
Buckeye on the left her sister Sweetie and their little friend Wade behind them
Buckeye
Sweetie
Buckeye in the nest box, I caught her there when I went...