This morning my dad, aka Pop's, added a concrete step in front of the coop porch. As Pop's and my mom are in their mid-60's, they have found the higher step from porch to ground to be hard on the knees. The rise is a good 12 to 15 inches.
So Pop's framed in an area and poured some...
The other evening, my dad was throwing a tennis ball for his two dogs. One of them spun around and accidentally mowed over one of our Buff Orpington hens, Squawky (she earned her name with the multitude of crazy sounds she makes). When she got up and ran off, the lower 4 or 5 inches of her...
One of our Barred Rock girls jumped on the band-wagon and layed her first egg this afternoon. At first I thought something was wrong with her as she was just sitting out in the garden by herself. Not moving around or eating. Finally she wandered into the coop and looked through all the...
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? My family has never had chickens until this year.
(2) We currently have 13 "girls".....at least we hope that these remaining chickens are all hens! We had 3 others that turned out to be roosters, which we couldn't have due...