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Off we go to Cascade Farm Supply~ Oh, look...tubs of BABY CHICKS!! What kind are they....OH...those are breeds we've been interested in! But...we have an established flock that are laying well... BUT....BUT....THEY'RE SO CUTE! How lucky! There is an employee who actually knows what everything...

I saw this and laughed so hard! I have to share...I will also have to get one of these: https://www.comforbuy.com/collections/animals/products/6078970-womens-fun-crazy-chicken-stitching-round-neck-sweater Look at that chicken!! SO CUTE!

So - I'm class of '65. Lived a pretty much hippy lifestyle right out of high school. Oh, I got a job as a telephone operator but I also lived in a commune of little cabins after mom (pretty gently) threw me out of the house ("It's time you learned to live on your own."). We smoked grass, ran...

...and now we just saw and heard Glynnis doing the egg song and there was a 2nd, same color but much smaller egg in the nest box. Can/do chickens lay 2 eggs in one day? For their first lay?

WE GOT OUR FIRST EGG TODAY!!! Heard the egg-laying song as we were getting started this morning, and....ta-da! The chickens are 4 months old...we got them on the first part of April! The egg is smaller than the store-bought ones we have in the refrigerator...I took a picture of ours and "theirs"...

You be the judge...

Well, jeez. I don't think anyone ever told me that there were determinate and indeterminate types of potatoes, what the difference was, and how to grow them. Now I'm sure most of you know this, but on the off chance that someone else is struggling as I have been - this is the first year I've...

The first one is Dottie. I love her subtle grays and now she's just starting to get some brown on the back of her neck, too. I incubated and hatched all of our SFHs. First time ever, and a resounding success! The second one is Bitey, who was named for her habit of pecking her sisters when she...

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Our girls are growing! And three of them are not girls. <sad face> But here's an update!

Remember those little chicks in the shower in "Chicken Showers"? Well, they're growing.... (and for those who missed it, here is the original! )

These are pics of my young doe, Fern. She just started doing this...carrying around a mouthful of hay. When I take her something else she likes to eat, like a snippet of fresh clover, she tries to eat it THROUGH the mouthful of hay. If I take the hay from her, she's fine with that and eats the...

So here we are now, with 4 chicks at 5 weeks, 3 chicks at almost 4 weeks and 6 at nearly 3 weeks. Many of these, we incubated and hatched ourselves, and several of them I held in my hand and assisted them to come into the world, as they were shipped and some of the air-cells were wonky. Now...

So here we are, new yard, planting like mad. I have put in 4 rose bushes so far and have 2 more delivered today PLUS several Oregon native roses. To me, a rose is a failure if it has no smell. I weep over the supermarket ones that look so lovely and last so long but have all the smell of a...

This shows how the chicks use the a 'mama hen plate'. They go under when they get cold, and come boiling out when they warm up. Perfect! Yes, this is our little mob of 11 chicks. Eight Swedish Flower Hen chicks, One BO (with the orange smear on her head), and two Amberlink. Fortunately, we have...

Finally, all the eggs I got in the mail have hatched except one, which looks dead. Still, 7 out of 8 is way better than I ever expected. Boots has them set up in her bathtub(!) and all, including one that just came out this morning, are eating, drinking, and running out and back under the...

Had to share on more than the original thread. I'm so happy!! Say Happy Birthday to Swedish Flower Hen chick number 1 - shipped egg, first ever try at hatching!

These are my SFH eggs at 14 days. Since this is the first time I have ever tried to hatch eggs, and also because they were shipped, I'd invite anyone with more knowledge than I have to comment. Are they...anywhere near what they should look like? I do see movement inside most of them. They are...

Last night we candled our 8, 8 day old eggs. You can see large air pockets, plus a little dark moving thing so yay! They're alive. I've read and re-read many of the 'how to hatch' articles here and I do have one question...if, as one article states, many deaths are caused by too much water in...

Going to the pet store is right out but we are sitting on a pile of rocks and sand (used to be dunes here). So my question is: Here are our 4 new baby chicks who are eating medicated baby chick starter, but we know we can't feed much of anything else (and yes, I'm aware that the starter has...