About Our Flock
We got our 5, 2-year old hens on Labor Day weekend. We added our 6 month old rooster a week later. We never knew how much fun chickens would be! They each have their own personalities! We're hooked!
These are our two New Hampshire Red hens, Ethel and Lucy. They lay brown eggs and...
This is an old dog house / dog pen we've had for years, where our new chickens, Speckles and Clara, have been staying.
Here are Spek and Clara, our Barred Rock rooster and Barred Rock/Easter Egger hen.
We decided to do a complete conversion to a coop with storage room for all of our supplies...
Our new coop and run that my husband and I designed. My husband build this almost entirely out of lumber and materials from an old workshed he tore down a few years ago. The Girls seem really happy in their new home.
This is the coop after some "embelishments." :)
This is the run access gate...
I didn't know hens would catch mice until yesterday. My alpha hen, Lucy, was under the porch and caught a little gray mouse, slammed the little guy on a stump until he was limp, and then just swallowed him whole! It was the most amazing thing I've ever seen!
Please enter my coop in the contest! Good luck to all contestants!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=40747-our-new-coop-and-the-girls
Shelley and Rob Lee, Sumrall MS
One of my New Hampshire Red's is my noisiest, and wants to be the center of attention!
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1 Ameraucana Roo, Hens: 2 New Hampshire Reds, 1 Leghorn, 1 Easter Egger, 1 Barred Rock. Also 2 dogs, 2 cats, a fish and looking for 2 Pygmy...
This is our new chicken coop my husband built all out of used lumber from a shed he tore down. We just got our hens two days ago from a flock of 20. They seem very happy in their new home!
Run access.
Side access
Nest boxes - we have removed the dish pans...Girls didn't like them...
I'm using the introduction questions from the template. Seems the easiest way to get started!
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? My DH and I are new to chickens. We just picked ours up two days ago!
(2) How many chickens do you have right now? We have 5 hens, and...