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September 2023 - New layers! 🥚 September kind of just flew past me in a blur. All my Crevecoeurs who hadn't started laying yet all began laying. Though this was exciting news, I ran into a health issue that kept me busy, distracted, and wrecked my sleep for most of the month... Helga's Crop...

August 2023 - Getting Work Done 🔨 Here I am finally posting about August at the end of September. August was definitely a busy month, but busy in a good way. Whereas September was busy in more of a "pullet-is-sick-for-3-weeks" and "my-ferret-nearly-suffocated-himself" kind of way. But I'll get...

@RedwoodCoastChick Oh, how I wish we had dry heat here! Though I'm sure it comes with it's own list of problems. I'm definitely more accustomed to less humidity, grew up in southern Ohio and lived in northern Tennessee for a time. I don't think I'll ever get used to how smothering it can be...

July 2023 - Summer Time Relaxing Things finally calmed down for the beginning of the month (though it definitely had to go out with a huge scare). I finally got time to take care of myself. Got into a good rhythm of caring for my critters and taking time to do things I enjoy finally. Caught up...

June 2023 - More Babies?! & Calcium Chaos Continues In retrospect, June wasn't bad. Stressful, sure, but not bad. I'm thankful that every challenge has been solvable. I'm also thankful that there haven't been any deaths. That tells me Ella's passing definitely was an outlier. I still wish she...

May 2023 - Troubled Times Continue It's amazing how rough it's been since I got 9 chicks in February. Going from 7 to 16 chickens really increases your odds for problems but it feels like too much, you know? Still, I want to start by saying that I can't express enough how grateful I am for this...

April 2023 - Beautiful pullets! & the Second Sour Crop Scare... It's been a bit hard getting to these updates of mine. The past 3 weeks I've been very on edge, worried I might lose a second chicken. It's been a double-edge sword. I feel like I was already very observant but increasing awareness...

@Farmgirl283420 and @RedwoodCoastChick thank you so much. ❤️ Ella was such a sweetheart and I miss her so much. I'm very happy that all my others have been happy and healthy. That's been a big scare these past 3 weeks. But I've been making sure everyone gets all the care and love they deserve.

April's update got delayed because my draft vanished. I was going to take some time this week to type it up again, but my dear Ella passed away sometime last night. RIP (Cru)Ella aka Yellin' Ellen I'm just devastated and can't stop crying. I actually have a bit of a bad history with birds. My...

@Farmgirl283420 I love their names! Marigold and Daffy are probably my favorites. It's always exciting getting new chicks. And poor Josephine, what a rough time. It's very sweet of you to give her a good home! I'm sure she's very happy!

March 2023 - Bonding with the Babies Zelda & Tilly Return to Laying Seems Zelda and Tilly finally finished their mini molts! They both have returned to laying eggs and all the EE girls are producing so wonderfully! Tilly's return to lay also calmed down the fighting; seems they've let her back...

February 2023 - New Feathered Friends 🥰 The Guard Pup: Something I haven't really spoken about yet here is that I've been trying to train my Shetland Sheepdog puppy to guard the chickens. My family got him for me July last year and he's pretty much been around them since. I'm not sure if he'll...

January 2023 - The Mini Molt Mystery! 🧐 Well, this actually started at the end of December 2022. Zelda's comb started getting shriveled and pale. She also stopped laying eggs, had a decrease in appetite, and mellowed out a bit. She's the dominant girl and often would peck at me when I cleaned...

Thank you! And @BlindLemonChicken, I'm actually finally working on that now! Got some plans wrote up last month and began work. Sadly it won't be anything fancy but it'll be far better!

2022 First Flock: So last year I got my first chickens ever! June 6 I bought 6 Easter Egger chicks on impulse when I went to TSC. I had been wanting chickens and meant to get some Rhode Island Reds but at the time they didn't have any. I was absolutely not ready so I pretty much ended up keeping...