after a trip to a farm full of baby chicks my husband got chicken fever REALLY badly .. we saw an ad on craigslist for baby barred rocks( a breed i've dealt with a lot) so we went to check them out, there were perhaps 60 chickens on the farms and lots of them were for sale, a woman who was...
so on saturday, my two ladies in black started to crow.. turns out they are MEN in black! so we sent them back to the farm they came from where they will be happily cared for. and we traded them for a beautiful blue cochin hen. we named her Oishii Buru ( which is japanese for delicious blue)...
last night we went up and picked up our new baby cochins!
meet Elizabeak Squawkins
and her sister
Blackberry Smoothie
thank you ke5hde for giving them to us!
they are so far,very sweet and are getting very comfortable VERY fast!
and while we are dealing with...
this should be fun! how old were you when you got your first chicken(s)? what were they? did they have names? etc etc
I was 6 she was a leg horn and her name was Henny Penny she was eaten 2 months later by my neighbors dog ( their kids put the dog IN the pen while my family was on...
so, i wanted to share this story.
a few years ago, my husband and i were driving home,when we see an idiot co worker of my husband's sitting on the side of the road,looking lost with a very young chicken in his hands. we stopped and found that he had seen this chick get hit by a car and...
Married couple joining the forum together under the same username. My name is Fred and my Wife's name is Terra. We have 2 Kitties, 2 Dogs, and as of right now 1 young chicken. We've had chickens on and off over the years and decided that we would like to make them a permanent addition to our...