If you prayed for our chickens to start laying eggs, thank you so much! 🙂 I believe it was the very next day that I received a call while having coffee with a couple of women from church at Starbucks. It was an out-of-breath Cooper calling to report that Kayla had just discovered an egg… Read More Chickens: Triumph and Tragedy

Well , the chickens are now more than 6 months old and have yet to produce any eggs. My friend Christina, who got her chicks on the same day and from the same place has been getting eggs for about 3 weeks now! I have done all I know to do……put fresh hay in the… Read More Hens on Strike?

This chicken’s name used to be “Chocolate” or sometimes “Chocolate Bar,” (Kayla named them all) but now she is affectionately called “Hard Head.” She is extremely stubborn. In fact, all of the Barred Plymouth Rocks that we raised have this same stiff-necked streak. So, last night we went out to lock them up for the… Read More Adventures with Chickens: The Renegade

I forgot to shut and latch the chicken coop last night. Well, I remembered at around 11pm while I was lying in bed. I pondered over getting up, getting a flashlight, making the trek out to the coop, but I didn’t do it. I went to sleep thinking of raccoons and skunks and actually had… Read More Sad Tale

We (Kayla and I) spent time yesterday afternoon doing more work on the coop so that the chicks could possibly spend the night (and hopefully the rest of their lives!) outside. This entailed pulling some HUGE weeds out of the yard and the coop, “sewing” the rows of chicken wire together with wire “thread” along… Read More For the Birds

Pure Cuteness! The boys and Paw-Paw spent the morning building the coop – even though it won’t be needed for a couple of months. We were able to get all scrap lumber, a feeder, and laying boxes from a antique/junk yard belonging to my friend Aimee’s father. A roomful of chicks at the Farmer’s Supply… Read More The Chicks Are Here!