On Sunday night, August 22nd, right before I made another trip to Seattle, I had a Welsummer hen go broody. She was still on her nest on Monday night and Tuesday night, and I was scheduled to fly out to Seattle on Wednesday. After it was clear that she was sitting on two eggs, IContinue reading “Sunraven’s Baby Chicks”
Category Archives: Chickens
The Chickens Are Laying!
It feels like another lifetime, the time when the chickens were tiny, incredibly stressed and thus loud chicks, who had traveled by US Postal Service and my dad’s old pickup to arrive in the upstairs bathroom of the farmhouse. In truth, that was only 6 months ago, in March of 2021. It was so muchContinue reading “The Chickens Are Laying!”
Chickens Gone Wild
I started letting the chickens out of their coop every day starting the end of March when they were still itty bitty and housed in the north annex of the milking barn (what is now officially the chicken brooder room). The first day I let them out, I was quite nervous. As a completely brandContinue reading “Chickens Gone Wild”
Chickiepoos
In my last update, the chickens were fluffballs and only two weeks old. It is a month plus since, and the formerly tiny chicks are now much larger pullets and cockerels, almost 7 weeks old. The flock is still 19 strong — eleven Welsumers (9 pullets, 2 cockerels) and eight Andalusians (7 pullets, 1 cockerel).Continue reading “Chickiepoos”
I Love My New Chicks
Having survived my Trial by Fire, I am finally getting to enjoy the new chicks. My first ever flock currently has 19 members. Eight of them are Andalusian chicks and eleven of them are Welsummer chicks. If you are curious why I picked those two breeds, you can read this earlier post. Prior to theContinue reading “I Love My New Chicks”
Trial by Fire
I should have better prepared. I know myself. I am an empath. And if that is too new age for you, then just label me a “highly sensitive person,” or HSP, as it is often shortened in the media. Blame it on highly active mirror neurons or some shit like that. I knew some ofContinue reading “Trial by Fire”
Final Prep for the Chicks
I have visited the downtown post office twice in the last two days. On both occasions, I learned that live chicks arrive first thing in the morning, and that I can arrive as early as 7am to pick them up, assuming I drive around back and ring the bell. It sounds like a secret clubContinue reading “Final Prep for the Chicks”
The Chickens Are Coming!
So isn’t that Featured Image photo ADORABLE?!? Normally I put photo credits at the end of a post, but in this case, I am moving it up to the top to say many thanks to Hannah Oliver on Unsplash for her wonderful and truly adorable Featured Image photo. Now on to other things…. It is hard toContinue reading “The Chickens Are Coming!”
Which Chicken? Part Three
Up until this point, I was thinking about my chickens as mostly a hobby-and-I-can-eat-my-own-eggs kind of thing. My Dad, on the other hand, had BIGGER PLANS. We were chatting by phone several weeks ago, and he suggested turning the former milking barn into the chicken barn and WOW does that ever open up possibilities. IContinue reading “Which Chicken? Part Three”
Which Chicken? Part Two
After hours and hours and hours of pouring over various heat-tolerant chicken breeds, and the creation of an in-depth spreadsheet of the traits of about 20+ standard chicken breeds, I made my purchase of chicks for the new farm in the wee hours of the morning on November 16th, 2020. I ended up buying myContinue reading “Which Chicken? Part Two”
The Feminine Farmer 