Tales of a Tiny Farm.

[MrsEskew]

Campbellfarm those babies are so cute!! My Cherry Eggers look kind of like your red girls. I'm very fond of my reds. They are the most curious ones I have.

 

[campbell5]

Just an Update to our growing farm.

Outside we have:
3 - Mille Fluer D'uccle Bantams (1 Hen, 2 Roo's)
1 - Naked Neck Mille Fluer D'uccle Bantam Hen
2 - Cornish Red Laced Hens
2 - Buff Orpingtons
3 - Rhode Island Reds
9 - Production Reds/Red Sex Links
4 - Barred Rocks ( 3 Hens, 1 Mature Roo)
1 - Black Australorp Hen (Our current layer)
1 - White Sulton (Our Broody Mother)
1 - Splash Silkie Hen
1 - Mallard Drake
2 - Rouen Drakes
1 - Pekin Hen
1 - Blue Hen
2 - Cayugas

Inside in the Brooder:
1 - India Blue Peacock
3 - Easter Eggers
1 - White Silkie
1 - Splash Silkie
3 - Barred Rock/Black Australorp Crosses

Other Various Animals:
3 Children
3 Dogs
3 Cats

 

[Campbellfarm]

Peabody (Peacock) is now 2.5 weeks old and is already learning to spread his fan. Clearly out growing the rest in the brooder box. His Corona (feathers on top of his head) are starting to come in. We have very intense whistling conversations almost everyday.

 

[Campbellfarm]

Our Barred Rock Roo and our Black Australorp Hen's babies are now 1.5 weeks old and only appear to have white on just the tips of there wings.

 

[MakelaNJoe]

How amazing!i am trying to start what my husband refers as the "micro farm"! I have 4 chickens a nigerian dwarf goat (waiting for his brother to be weaned so he can join us) 6 dogs a kennel liscence and our 2 kids! Your posts make me all the more eager to continue adding to my "micro farm" especially some more chicks!

 

[campbell5]

I won't lie, it's a lot of work. But it's so worth it. Our kids are getting to grow up in an environment that is happy and busy, and of course EGGS. Rooster Man and I were just talking yesterday aboout how we can't wait to be a bit more self reliant and he actually said he'd love to just live on a working farm! The whole experience is so rewarding, from seeing happy birds, to gathering and cooking with fresh eggs, to seeing the kids learn how to care for and be thankful for the animals.

 

[MakelaNJoe]

It is definetly amazing!! My 2 yr old son has realised the peppers are beginning to ripen and are ready to be pulled,the excitement on his face when he pulls off a cayenne pepper makes it all the worth the work! You guys are doing Great and i love the fact that your children get to grow with animals and know where eggs come from! My 16 yr old little sister told me something rediculius the other day ( you cant eat your eggs with a roo around you will eat a chick!!) I had to explain to her that u CAN eat fertilized eggs and that the dont develop right away takes a broody hen. She was dumbfounded i was thinking to myself geez what did mom teach you lol!

 

[campbell5]

LOL

My little sister thinks I'm strange because we didn't grow up on a farm but that's the life my husband and I are trying to create for the kids. But to be honest, we are horrible gardeners.

 

[MakelaNJoe]

I hear ya i grew up in a medium size city moved to a extremly small town in the mountains where i met my husband and started our family, so the whole farm goat as a pet thing is definetly new to me! And im pretty lousy at gardening as well i started this big garden in the spring spent hundreds of dollars and only the toughest plants made it through tomatoes peppers cabbage and 1 cucumber and 1 lettuce lol i was super disappointed!

 

[Campbellfarm]

Some free ranged nesting boxes. Trying something out to prevent the girls from laying randomly through out the yard.
Long one.

Tall one.

Naked Neck Milli checking out our boxes before there finished.

Just trying something out.