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chicken yard

January 25, 2012 By Angi Schneider 5 Comments

chicken yard

Our chickens finally have their own yard. They haven’t minded having free run of the whole back yard, but Rascal hasn’t enjoyed being tied and, of course, we can’t start planting the garden until they are confined. Although, I think they would like us to go ahead with it. We mainly used T-posts but on the corner we used a short telephone pole. […]

eggs…eggs…eggs

September 20, 2011 By Angi Schneider 4 Comments

our first eggs

The Rhode Island Red hens have started laying! Phoebe and Benjamin are collecting 10-12 eggs a day. They are brown and the Barred Rocks and Buff Orrpingtons will also lay brown eggs. But we did adopt some hens from a neighbor and I think that 4 of them might be Americanas and if they are […]

chicken "family"…

May 3, 2011 By Angi Schneider Leave a Comment

first baby chicks

We now have 3 different kinds of chickens, we have a mama and a daddy chicken, 17 “teenage” chickens and 12 new baby chickens. We gave our two small ones to a friend who doesn’t have a rooster. And lost a couple of the Red ones we bought. So we got 6 Orppingtons and 6 Barred Rocks. We […]

::peep, peep::

February 22, 2011 By Angi Schneider 2 Comments

The chicks are here! Friday, Phoebe and Benjamin became the proud “parents” of 25 baby hens. We spent the weekend working outside, enlarging the chicken coop and making some pens for these little girls to be in after they leave our mudroom but before they go into the chicken yard. The older boys have decided […]

::meet the ladies::

January 25, 2011 By Angi Schneider Leave a Comment

first hens

Remember when I said that Phoebe and Benjamin wanted to start an egg business. Well, some friends wanted to tidy up their back yard and so they gave us their hens. These were really more like pets than livestock, and came with cute names, such as “Fluffy, Tweetie and Blackie”. They are fitting in just […]

Bees

January 17, 2011 By Angi Schneider 2 Comments

helping with bees

Last Friday night a friend called and asked if we wanted to come over and help harvest “a little bit of honey.” Do we???? Of course we do!! Gabriel has been entralled with bees forever and has wanted a hive for several years. Our friends have offered him bees, but until now we really didn’t […]

::meet Rooster Cogburn::

October 26, 2010 By Angi Schneider Leave a Comment

cogburn

Shhhh, don’t tell him he’s not John Wayne, because he thinks he is! We decided to add chickens to our little homestead next spring. Not only for eggs for us but we thought it would be a great opportunity for Phoebe and Benjamin to earn a little extra money selling eggs. Several ladies from church […]

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