Cast of Chickens
Snowy (RIP)
Frosty (RIP)
Baby
Sugarplum (RIP)
Rockette (RIP)
Freedom (RIP)
Pancake (RIP)
Rosie (RIP)
Raven
Tater (RIP)
Surfer Dude (RIP)
Rocky (RIP)
The Story of Our Chickens
They are as big as the parents now
We still are not sure about the sexes of the pair. Tater has started crowing like dad, so all signs point to a rooster. I am still holding out some hope for Pancake. She (pretty please) hasn't been crowing, and seems to not be as large as Tater. From all the pictures...
All moved in
I got to say, these are some fine looking birds. I must really not understand chicken genetics, because they look NOTHING like their parents.
We need a bigger house!!!
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.
They grow faster when you feed them
They grow up so fast. The first two "grandkids". Rosie named them Pancake and Potato (Tater). Good luck telling them apart.
We have chicks!!!
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 first...
The stash
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 VERY free...
The OGs for the Sox Family Farm
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.