I’m feeling cranky, my kids are sick and my chickens are getting killed!
First we lost my family’s chicken Henrietta (above) right before Easter (not sure what happened to her but she was old and not acting herself right before she disappeared) but now our 6 chickens that we raised from chicks last spring are getting [...]

We love our chickens! I got 6 eggs this morning. Jamie and I went out to feed them and she was excited to do it herself and to pet them. We are running low on their food so they also got an old box of granola, a 1/2 eaten banana and the remains of Jamie’s [...]

I’m playing around with the Youtube upload feature of iMovie 09. Worked well, very easy. Our digital camera, however, has tons of dust on the lens causing those dark spots.

If you listen carefully, you can hear pirates in the background.
Heather also got some great photos of the chickens out in the snow.

Its been so cold here lately and my poor chickens aren’t loving it! Some days they don’t venture out of their little house but I don’t know how much warmer they are in there. We have 2 red heat lights in it but their water still freezes. 4 of the birds were brave enought to [...]

John wrote a few weeks ago about the chickens sleeping in the trees and its getting out of hand, I mean its winter! Earlier in the week we had a night that was really cold and 2 chickens were missing when John went to close them in their coop. The weather man said it was [...]

Right after I had Jillian the chickens started to lay eggs. I’ve lost count but we’ve gotten over 20 so far. The 2 Wyandottes started first because we just got brown eggs for the first 2 weeks but slowly the Ameraucanas are following suit and we have some green eggs too (although the picture doesn’t [...]

Last Thursday Heather and I both got sick with a stomach bug that left us nauseaus and achy.  We barely had the energy to keep up with the kids and left the chickens to fend for themselves.  That night I noticed one of our dogs kept barking whenever we let him out, but thought nothing [...]

I don’t actually like this but Ethan has found a new tree to climb in our yard (its a big tree can you spot him?). Its the big blue spruce in our front yard that the chickens have made their second home. Ethan followed the chickens under it one day and discovered that he likes [...]

We’re having a “stay home” day today. Ethan has had a mild stomach bug the last few days, its raining and I’m tired so I decided to keep Ben home from preschool today too so we could relax. The chickens must miss us, they didn’t get to greet us at the minivan today so they [...]

The chickens are getting so friendly (minus their little pecks) and they love to be around us when we’re outside now. The boys spent some of yesterday morning collecting acorns and pinecones from the yard and John, Jamie and I had to join them once the chickens surrounded them. I got some old bread and [...]