Suburban Chicken Project
(otherwise known as Two men and some hens, Eggarea 51, Big D's Chicken Ranch, or Good-Lord-I hope-the-neighbors-don't-find-out Farms)
My 12 year old son and I live in a typcial suburban neighborhood. I have always wanted a chicken 'r two, so as part of a Boy Scout...
the chicken rancher lady i got our girls from said it could take a year for our girls to be 'fully grown', but my gosh in just a handful of weeks they went from puff balls to young women!
just a few short weeks ago!
out having a scratch this week
my son says they look like 'midget...
my son and i have a ways to go, but we are beyond the 'design' stage, and moving to the construction stage. should be just about perfect timing with getting it finished and the girls ready to move into larger digs.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=7271
This is the full "Suburban Chicken Project". We had wanted to hatch eggs and raise from there, but while on a trip to Houston a couple of weeks ago, I found a farmer'ess with a fresh hatch of eggzactally what my son and I decided we wanted to raise, and I just couldn't resist. We are the proud...
my son and i just got our hovabator 1602N, which is the base model, with no bell, whistles (or peeps, yet). we are going to attempt to hatch, raise and 'mother' a few backyard chickens. we wanted the whole mothering experience, i guess, so we are going all the way from egg on up with our...
hi guys.
brand new to this site, and i thought of no better first post than to send out a a big Suburban Chicken Project (aka HenPen Area 51), shoutout....."C'mon Pat!!"
drew