ourgirlsonmars
In the Brooder
We have been raising chickens for 8 years now here in North Carolina. Our oldest, original girl, is 8 years old. We were originally told that we had "mostly hens" when we obtained our 14 chickens from a local farmer. Well we found out that we had 9 roosters! One of our favorite roosters we named Buzz, renaming her quickly to Buzz-e-let when she was the one who laid our first EGG! Boy did we have a "Chicken Pluckin" on Mars....as our You-Tube video shows. We have only had one chick hatched from one of our hens, last November. He was a beautiful black, red and green rooster that I named Nugget. A chicken hawk got him one evening, we forgot to put him in his pen. Lesson learned....None of our other chickens have ever died due to predator kills, only natural causes. We have "One -Eyed Roostie" who looks (with one eye) over the girls. Our chickens participate in all of our outdoor activities: gardening, sleigh riding in winter, chicken walking with our kids with homemade halters and leashes. We raise meal worms for them and even carry them, one by one, to the coop at night when the snow is just to deep for their little yellow feet. My husband and son have built coop #2 from scratch and it is a Chicken Coop Paradise for them. We leave the coop and fencing open at all times for 15 acres of free-ranging unless we are on vacation. They are truly living a life that other chickens in this county would only dream of. We live in the town where Tyson Chicken was started. I hope our being on this site will be of benefit to "our girls on Mars" and may even allow us to help others, along the way, with their flock. God Bless John 3:16 KJV
did it take long to build?
