Meet The Peeps!! :) (part one)
Meet the flock.. we will start with our first flock last year, was such an amazing learning experience for the family and I... The waiting for the peeps was our learning time, we read the book
I absolutely recommend this book to anyone with children!! (or without) Amazing pictures and so much helpful, useful information, not to mention the step by step journey of Jenna's first flock...and did I mention the pictures! :)
They finally arrive!
This was our first set up babies last year.5/2011. 8 Barred Rock Babies. We ordered a straight run and had connections at the feed store, so we ended up with 6 hens and 2 Roos :)
Peeps first time playing in the run
Love this Awkward stage
The Ross are getting so pretty :)
Starting to fill out some
Side view of the coop before the addition needed for this year :), and my yard sale find!!!
My children love our chickens and they will waddle up for some love!!
Waiting on our first egg was a toned down experience of waiting for your first child...or maybe not quite... but...
Our very first egg didn't really have a shell and was under the roosts, not in the laying boxes...was fun to look at, not to mention we were all so happy to have our first "sort of" egg!!
Our first fully formed official egg!
One of our Rocks has laid a couple of double yolkers now...All I can think of is that really must hurt.
And yes my chickens do swing...do yours ???
This is a picture my daughter took..with some help from us..to enter in our local fair--she won first place!! ;)
We call it Chicken in a Pot or Chicken Pot Pie :)
The chickens really didn't think to much of the snow...and really wouldn't come out of the coop much during the storm...they would hide under the coop if they were hungry or thirsty.
My Rocks laid pretty well for me most of the winter. I did not add artificial light, so there was a short amount of time that we would only get 1-2 eggs a day from our 6 hens...We are up to full production with the big girls and mostly get 6 eggs a day now.
My husband and I are trying to become more self-reliant, also. He has had barred rock hens in the past, and that is what we will probably try soon here. I have never read Chick Days, but I have read "Barnheart' by Jenna. I have also met and talked to her twice at the Mother Earth News fair in Pennsylvania the last two years. She has a new book coming out in the fall. Do you also subscribe to her blog (coldantlerfarm.blogspot.com)?
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