Birds and Bees

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …