Crawdads
The kids had some fun recently hunting for crawdads in the creek. 😊
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New Baby Chicks
The kids have been enjoying hatching eggs. It’s such a great experience. We used eggs that our hens laid. The last batch had several that were mixed breeds, so this time we separated the Dominiques to make sure this batch was 100% Dominiques. We put …
Chickens & Eggs For Sale
We have an abundance of eggs for sale. If anyone is interested. 🙂 $3 a dozen or 2 dozen for $5. We will be making a trip to Rockford next week also & can meet somewhere if anyone needs any. 🙂 We also have a …
Incubating Eggs Part One
Hi this is Lizzy, when the chicks were hatching I decided that I was going to catalog everything that I noticed going on. This is just going to be part number one and the rest will come soon. Jan 29 5:00 Keira …
Tips on Raising Chickens – Part 2 – Baby Chicks
If you want to read Part 1 about choosing a breed & starting off, you can read it here: Tips on Raising Chickens – Part 1 Today we’ll be talking about Raising Baby Chicks. If you start with eggs or chicks you’ll need to be …
Tips on Raising Chickens – Part 1 – Choosing the Right Breed
Hello, I (Xanna) will be sharing some thoughts and suggestions on raising/keeping chickens. First off, you have to consider the breed(s) you want to keep. This will be based very much off of why you are interested in keeping chickens and if you’ve had any …
Chickens Hatching
In the top picture, you may be able to see that 6 chicks have now hatched. 7 more have not yet. 🙂 One in the top left corner is yellow, the rest are all black. Our kids LOVE to incubate chickens (starting with eggs that …
Weekly Gratitude Post 1/5/20
Today’s Gratitude Post is brought to you by Lucas. Lucas is thankful that he is in 4H. He loves to do archery & air rifle. He is also excited about showing a chicken this summer and incubating some of our chicken eggs. He is thankful …
New Kittens
We have a new batch of kittens that will be ready for new homes in December – Christmas kitties! 😁😁😁😁 First we start with Otter (fatso when pregnant). Typically cats start showing around week 6 and kittens appear around week 9. She ended up being …
