After a year of keeping chickens, I can’t see life without them.

[N F C]

Lovely photo, thanks for sharing it with us!

 

[Arrowen]

That's awesome. Some of mine like to sit on the branches of our Evans cherry! What kind(s) of trees are in there?

How lovely, we have hazels which they love sitting under, apples, pears, plums, olives, walnuts, quince, peaches, nectarines, lemons, oranges and limes.

 

[Meg-in-MT]

How lovely, we have hazels which they love sitting under, apples, pears, plums, olives, walnuts, quince, peaches, nectarines, lemons, oranges and limes.

Wow, that sounds amazing. I would love to have a big orchard some day, but we are limited to what we can grow here in Montana. Citrus would be so much fun.

 

[Ms Clucky]

. Your chickens are pretty. I worry all the time about mine. I love my little babies. Want pics and names? I have a lot of pics. Can't take enough.

 

[Arrowen]

Thanks

Welcome to BYC!! So glad you joined us! You have such beautiful chickens!

Thank you Cadence, I love them.

 

[Arrowen]

. Your chickens are pretty. I worry all the time about mine. I love my little babies. Want pics and names? I have a lot of pics. Can't take enough.

Thank you Ms Clucky, love them, enjoy them and play with them, never worry about them.

 

[Arrowen]

Lovely photo, thanks for sharing it with us!

Glad you liked it, makes me very happy just watching them.

 

[Arrowen]

Wow, that sounds amazing. I would love to have a big orchard some day, but we are limited to what we can grow here in Montana. Citrus would be so much fun.

I’m always surprised what grows where. We are trialing a cherry this year and although we do get temperatures of -5 it never really gets cold enough to have good cherries. However we will try.

 

[Meg-in-MT]

I’m always surprised what grows where. We are trialing a cherry this year and although we do get temperatures of -5 it never really gets cold enough to have good cherries. However we will try.

Oh fun! What kind of cherry is it? I've got an Evans that's 4 or 5 years old (and six very young trees/sticks) and produces buckets of very very tart cherries, haha. I baked a pie for my husband last year and it was wicked sour. But he and our youngest liked it, so not a total flop.
I believe it was developed somewhere in Canada (Edmonton maybe?).

North of us they can grown Flathead cherries (in the Flathead valley) and they're about the best things you'd ever eat. We just get too cold here.

 

[Sinful chick]

View attachment 1725619 i have a flock of 25 chickens that live in our big orchard. There are 3 roosters. The head rooster is a Barred Plymouth Rock and a really gentle soul, with me and with the girls. There are a mix of Barred Plymouth rocks, beautiful and fun Leghorns, Wyandottes, Dorkings, Welsummers and Sussex. I’ll be adding more in the spring. I’m now looking for a really good coop design for about 35 chickens.

I am SO happy for you!!!...jealous, but happy!!!