It's now been 6 days since our first egg... we're now up to a total of 9 eggs from what I think is 2 different ladies laying! :D We're checking the nesting boxes like 3x/day, we're just so excited!
Just updating with a pic from right after the girls moved into the coop-only portion. They were in there for 1 week before we opened the coop door giving access to the run.
They have now been in the coop/run for 2 months and it’s been working just as we wanted. :)
And I don’t have a pic, but we...
Okay so it sounds like this is still within normal female comb size… That’s a relief! It just looks so big I was scared she was a boy. 😅 We did just open their nesting boxes for the first time a few days ago because we know they’re reaching the age that this breed normally starts to lay- so I’m...
My chicks are 16 weeks old now and I am still paranoid that one of them is going to turn out to be a rooster. 😅
This girl’s comb is recently noticeably bigger and redder than the others. They were all pretty similarly sized until this past week when this girl’s has grown a lot. You can see one...
My flock is about 11.5 weeks old. There seems to be a lot of feathers in their run & coop. But none of them have any noticeable bare patches. Is this just normal molting for growing chickens? Pics of the areas of the run that have a lot. I do know one of these corners where they prefer to dust...
Here are pics of our flock. The girls are about 10.5 weeks old now. They are all getting so big! They have been out in their coop & fully enclosed run for 3.5 weeks. When we are spending some time outside, they get to come out of their run and free range around the backyard for a little while...
This is Margaret. Or so I hope! She is the only one of our girls that is making me worry she might not be. I have read that boys have way more white than girls. And that their feet don’t have as much dark on them.
She is overall a little lighter in color, but I think still more black than...
Our girls are 5 weeks old and they are really getting big!
We have 5 Barred Rocks, and 2 Easter Eggers.
Agnes:
Betty:
Ethel:
Hazel:
Louise:
Margaret:
And Nobara:
The nesting boxes are built out and the roof of that section is done! It still needs a latch and also a method to hook it up on the wall while collecting eggs.
We built the nesting boxes dividers to be removable for easier cleaning. Here’s a view of inside the coop showing how the nesting...
Thank you! The plan was to paint it all navy blue to match our house, but the old fence boards look so neat… We might still end up painting it later down the road. But for now we’ll just keep it as is!
Roosting bars installed today. We changed the plan a bit. They run the short distance of the coop, on the far end. There’s 2 four-foot bars mounted at the same height, with a ramp to assist getting up.
Next on the list is to finish building out the nesting boxes.
Update... here's some progress pics!
Obviously lots of things are in various states of unfinished so it feels a bit like a hot mess. But it’s getting there!! 😆 I think he’s making fabulous progress.
This is the view from our back deck.
(We replaced our back door last summer, and are reusing...