Americana
Our Americana will give you an assortment of colored eggs from turquoise to olive, to light brown. The Americana breed comes from the Araucana and Ameraucana mix and has different color plumage variations. It is because of this genetic combination that our birds are not meant for exhibition. Docile, Friendly…
York, our new Australorp chick
One of Frick’s adopted chicks was York – and Australorp. Here’s more: Our Americana will give you an assortment of colored eggs from turquoise to olive, to light brown. The Americana breed comes from the Araucana and Ameraucana mix and has different color plumage variations. The Australorp is an Australian…
Frick and her adoptees
We had a hen go broody for several weeks. In order to speed things along with getting her back to “normal” we adopted some chicks from Rural King to get the process going. Here’s Frick and her adopted brood of chicks.
All those nesting boxes, and the ladies lay in the weeds…
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…
Brown, Light Brown, Green Eggs
Which chicken laid which egg? Play along with us as we figure it out!
We’ve gotten eggs!
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…
Henrietta, the reluctant rooster.
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…
