We had an issue with my dog and I don't trust her around the chickens. She has been in the family for 5 years and has had free reign of our 1 acre property forever. Then come the chickens. I finally got a chain link dog pen for the dog to go into so that I can let the chickens out to free...
We had some extra from breakfast so we shared. This is my 4YO. Don't mind the short and cowboy boots. That is all he wears.
These are our 10 week old hens and (EE and BO) and our EE Rooster.
OK so I dont' have pictures yet of the coop we built, but we used all recycled everything except new plywood for the walls. The frame was already a part of a playfort that was sitting out in the sun for a year. We started with a level and lots of good intentions. In the end... well, my...
I was almost tempted to bring that back inside for one more night.... but after working on this coop in every spare minute for the last 4 weeks, my husband talked some sense into me. : )
and they lived.... *sigh*
I think I need some more baby chicks.
I have 3 EE chicks and some others, but the two EEs are nicely developing as what I can tell are pullets. Then there is Chicky-Chick, I specifically picked her because she was bigger and lighter in color than all the others in the pullet box and I like a little variety. Then I started...
I am a new chickie mama of 8 babies. I started out thinking 6 would be fine. Then we lost one right away, so when we went to replace her, I ended up with 2 more, then the feedstore got some white plymouth rocks in so I had to get one of those sweet little yellow chicks. So now we have 1 RIR...