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    I can't help it! 1 month ago

    This website makes me go ga ga for chickens!
    http://www.omlet.us



    Untitled 1 month ago

    I want to raise my own chickens



    BringMeThunder your breath, your bugs, your bones

    To me, 1 month ago

    there is something so comforting about a basketful of brown fresh eggs in the morning. Although I don’t eat meat, having egg-laying chickens would get my family one step closer to self-sustenance. I’ve only done a little research, but I really like these Buff Orpington Chickens.



    hearthnsoul is working out a plan for the coop interior

    Got my chicks man 5 months ago

    Well horse before the cart and all. I went out and bought 6 chicks. They were day olds and so cute within three days I brought home 3 more. I have them currently set up in my home office. My daughter now calls it the mullet room, all business in the front and party in the back. The chicks are great and we have been working on building a coop. It had been raining crazy so the coop is coming slow and unfortiunately the chicks are growing fast. They have now currently flown up and broke my favorite japanese lantern in my office and shat all over my top sales award. I love em, but so want them outside.
    I also have added a new goal to the goal,..I want to add some silkies to my brood. They are just beautiful.



    Sonya life lived deliberately

    City Chickens? 9 months ago

    I may have to wait until I own that house in the country, but someday I will own chickens! I have vowed not to eat meat until I have learned how to raise it myself, and I’ve stuck to that promise for 3+ years. Don’t know if I’ll ever be able to “process” my own dinner, but fresh eggs will be good enough if I do choose to stick to my vegetarian ways.



    kmom2468 is knee deep in the hooah!

    27 Chickens, oh my 12 months ago

    I guess when they actually start laying eggs (sometime soon), I can call this goal “done.”

    10 Cuckoo Marans – 8 pullets, 2 roosters
    9 Ameracaunas – 7 pullets (including Kick-Start), 2 roosters
    8 Silver Laced Wyandots – all pullets

    27 babies nearly all grown up

    Read all about them at http://HighDesertGardening.blogspot.com



    kmom2468 is knee deep in the hooah!

    3 Roosters Confirmed 13 months ago

    They crow, they strut around like, er, roosters, and they are growing spurs on their legs. I asked my friend’s Mom how I would know they were really roosters, and she just said, “You’ll know.” She was right. They totally look and act like roosters, not hens.

    Originally, we were going to eat the roosters. But I must be getting soft in my old age – I’m pretty sure I can’t eat them.

    The hens will be ready to lay by the end of Nov., so I will start increasing their light hours so they are up to the right amount of light by mid-November.

    Chickies are healthy; life is good.



    kmom2468 is knee deep in the hooah!

    Chicken chores for today 14 months ago

    On an average day, I can get away with about 15 minutes of care if I really don’t want to hang out with my biddies. On the other hand, sometimes one needs to get out there with the mucky boots on and go to town. Today is one of those days.

    • clean out sleeping crates
    • bleach drinking facilities
    • wash off porch
    • mist and rake the chicken yard
    • let the chickies play in the garden
    • (let chickies destroy more of the garden)
    • mix up more feed (moving off of the medicated chick starter to non-medicated game bird mix + scratch + oatmeal)
    • take more photos and/or videos of chickens


    kmom2468 is knee deep in the hooah!

    A maran 14 months ago

    They lay deep brown eggs known as “chocolate” eggs. Still a few months out from seeing any eggs from her.



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    One should build a coop... 15 months ago

    I guess if one has chickens, one should build a coop. Well, that, or marry a great guy with power tools who will build one for you! I’m lazy. I went the second route! And, to top things off, our son is also helping… so mostly I fill the ice chest with water, gatoraid and ice… but I put “Build a chicken coop” on my list of things to do since I did/am doing some little things (I stained some of the wood… I play with chickies in the garden so they stay out of the construction zone…)



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    Delen Kitchen asks, “I have always wanted a chicken, and Easter is coming up. My mother knows that I'd love to have a chick to raise. My questions are, will one chicken do well on it's own? Are they affectionate? Can they stay in the house for a good part of the time?”
    — 4 years ago


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