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 [...]
I haven’t posted about my chickens in quite a while and they are turning into characters! I let them have free run of the yard now when we’re home and they are fun to watch. Today I finally finished painting their coop that John built (and will blog with the plans once he shingles the [...]
Henrietta is our only chicken that seems to enjoy being picked up by the kids and that is full grown and laying eggs. She makes these cute little eggs about 2 out of 3 days. I just saved up 8 eggs to hardboil yesterday. We had quite a few that I let the kids collect [...]
Its been awhile since I’ve posted about the chickens. They seem bigger to me every day but are far from full sized. I don’t have nearly as much to do for them now that they’ve been outside and its nice. I open their little door to let them out each morning into their fenced in [...]
We now have seven chickens! Yesterday my brother Alex brought over my family’s lone chicken to come live with our chicks. Henrietta is getting old and lived in my mom’s garage so I think she’ll be happy to live with other chickens again (its been a year or so since her chicken friend Stacie died). [...]
I was so busy watching them enjoying the sun yesterday that I forgot to get pictures. They were like little dogs rolling around in the grass and laying on their sides basking in the sun, it was funny. These are some pictures of them in the early evening.
Last night we threw the chickens out! Ethan checked their house to make sure it was ready (and to play in it one last time before it wasn’t poop free). They needed some help finding the door. It was dark but we kept an eye on them with the flashlight as they adjusted. Soon I’ll [...]
