Month: May 2021

We put a pile of tall grasses into the yard for the chickens to peck around in. Little did we know they would choose that as their favorite spot to lay eggs! Just last night, after not finding any green eggs in the boxes, Sandi went to check other spots…

Esther has some fun faces!

Which chicken laid which egg? Play along with us as we figure it out!

We posted our first egg on instagram on Thursday, May 20th! Since then we’ve gotten almost 2 dozen keepers – and found a bunch of soft shelled/first eggs around the coop and under their roosts. We imagine the first egg is like, whoa, what’s this? Not being sure they just…

Soooo…Henrietta has the crooked leg which we’ve mentioned has not kept her/him down at all~! This past two weeks brought major redness out in his comb/wattles – that, the cock-a-doodle-doo’ing and the mounting of hens for chicken/rooster happy time has confirmed. Indeed. Henrietta is a boy. #2 in the Rooster…

Big bird has changed a bunch lately – her comb and wattles have reddened up, and the comb is spikier and now floppy a bit. We still aren’t certain of her breed. We’ll have to figure out which eggs are hers and that may give us more clues! Update: Big…

Chicken Identification – here’s Ebitz – the starlight green egger Hoover Hatchery