by markstocking | Nov 10, 2021 | Chickens, More
The chicks soon outgrew their boxes and needed to leave the laundry room for the great outdoors. Cleaned up and rebuilt the second coop and built a nice secure pen for the six-week old chicks, or should I say teenagers.
by markstocking | Nov 10, 2021 | Chickens
They grow up so fast. The first two “grandkids”. Rosie named them Pancake and Potato (Tater). Good luck telling them apart.
by markstocking | Nov 10, 2021 | Chickens
We started with 21 eggs. After 21 days, we had 2 chicks hatch. I guess Snowy was doing his job. From my basic math skills and my research, I figured that there were less that 5 eggs in the batch fresh enough to hatch. So I figure 2 out of 5 ain’t too bad for a...
by markstocking | Nov 10, 2021 | Chickens
Since we didn’t get a full history for the resident chickens when we got the farm, we had a lot of figuring out to do. The first mystery was where were the eggs. That’s why you have chickens, right? We had two chicken coops, but since the chickens were...
by markstocking | Nov 10, 2021 | Chickens, More
When we bought the farm, (the actual farm, not the saying), it came with a couple residents. Promptly named by DIL Rosie, as Snowy the rooster and Sugarplum the hen.