I lost one of my hens here at Four Chicken Farm. The Ameraucana was fine on Saturday morning, but by Sunday evening she had gone to the great free range in the sky. She didn’t show any signs of distress, … Continue reading
Category Archives: Chicken Chronicles
Yesterday I found the first egg from my Sicilian Buttercup hen. It’s the one on the left in this image, the right one is from my Rhode Island Red. The hen lights which I installed appear to be paying off. … Continue reading
Lay well, oh hens, your tasty oval fruit! Bask ye in light which I doth bring to thee at such unseas’nable a time as this! I’ve finally got the lights installed and working in the chicken coop! I had to … Continue reading
It’s been a while since I posted a chicken update. Things are going pretty smoothly out in the coop, although the days are much shorter now than they were in the summertime. My Cuckoo Marans hen has stopped laying on … Continue reading
I had been planning on going up to Grass Valley today, but the forecast was for a 60% chance of rain so I reconsidered. Instead of working on the barn, I stayed in San Jose and installed the nest boxes … Continue reading
Well, one hen has started laying anyway. I went to check on the chickens this morning and I found two small eggs which look to be from the Ameraucana. The shells and membrane were quite robust. I’ve heard that they … Continue reading
The chickens are doing well. They’re about eleven weeks old now and they seem healthy and happy. Here they are eating some tasty scratch grain mixed in with their regular feed. I’ve still got them on starter/grower feed. They should … Continue reading
Today is Day Three of the mostly-completed poultry habitat, and the girls seem to be enjoying it. They aren’t particularly enjoying the weather, with a high of around 90 degrees yesterday. They spend a fair bit of time laying down … Continue reading
I finally finished up the chicken run yesterday with the installation of the door. The chickens are now fenced in! This morning I built a ramp for them so that they can get up and down, and for the first … Continue reading
The chickens grow fast! … Continue reading