9/18/12

hello i just wanted to say that my girls are doing just fine and we recently relized tha our silkie is a rooster lol! yes he coccledoodle doos and everything he sure is cute! but now we have three chickens laying eggs so far we found the third egg yesterday (it was puny) we are very excited and again if you have any questions whatsoever about chickens just comment or email me :)

september,7,12 Plans for the girls

yes i know i know! i havent posted pictures for a while now but i will dont worry! but i was just wanting to discuss my plans for my girls!, as you know one of my little ladys has started laying (my rhode island red)

shes been laying for about a coule weeks now ! yay! but i am really hoping i am going to have a broody hen im really really hoping because we found out we have a silkie rooster aha! yes our white fuzzy one and if one of our chickens had chiks well that would be awsome! so yes i would like to get to know more about broody hens  because i want to have one reallly bad but i guess ill have to wait :) and again if you have any questions for me id be most happy to answer them please please ask! :) and im in need of followers! and likes!

WWOOHOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

guess what guess what!!!by girls started laying now they have a total of three brown eggs so far!!!!really excited!

june,27,2012 How do you tell what color eggs your chickens are going to lay?

if you want to know how to check your chickens egg color before they lay then this is for you well normally you should already know when your buying the breed but if you don't this is how you can tell. the chickens earlobe ,when its white that means the chicken will only lay white eggs yes this may sound ridiculous  but its true and if a chicken has a colored earlobe like red or yellow or brown then they will lay a colored egg. but don't get me wrong its fun to know what color your chickens eggs are but there is no difference nutrition wise with color, some people think that brown eggs are healthier but they are quite wrong it doesn't matter its just personal preference . hope you enjoyed! :)

june,24,2012 chicken update!

i took some pictures today of the grown up chicks there still not fully grown you can tell because there combs havent grown in, when there fully grown they should be a bright red and that's when they will start laying eggs,i have recently started letting them free range around the backyard  to catch bugs and eat grass its good for them! :) cant wait till they start laying!

may,12,2012 found the camera!!!

good news i found the camera! so heres just some new pictures i took today of the chicks using the door lol exciting isnt it? :)

old pics

May,8,2012 cockadoodledooo!!!

okay Im really sorry I haven't been able to post any pictures but the camera is still missing but once i find it i promise to upload nothing but tons of pictures!!! but anyway if you get chicks and you live in the city (like me) make sure you get rid of the roosters before they are old enough to COOOCCKKIIDOODLEDOOO!!!  neighbors will complain and you can get fined real bad! but another reason why i want my camera is because we just got 6 more chicks from dels feed store! there tiny and fuzzy but i hope they grow fast :) but yes roosters in the city is illegal and if you are found with one you'll be fined so if you have one and need to get rid of it you should take it to somones farm and offer it to them or you can look up adds on craigslist but yes somtimes roosters can be a hastle :) hope you enjoyed!

May,8,2012 WHY YOU WANT FRESH EGGS!

if you are thinking about raising chickens or know somone who is,  I highly recomend fresh eggs . The taste of fresh eggs are by far much better than the eggs you buy from the store did you know that the eggs from the grocery store are a lot of the time months old you can tell because the eggs air cell will get larger at the top of the egg thats why when you peel your boiled eggs theirs always a air bubble indent thats because their old. Fresh eggs on the other hand taste much better in comparison , the yolk is much plumper and darker showing the chicken even had a better diet then the cramped factory chickens farm eggs are healthier to because the chickens were healthier not being fed antibiotics but instead grass and bugs and various things around the yard but yes i most highly recomend farm fresh eggs and if you know somone with chickens  im sure they would agree with you and im sure they wouldent mind selling you eggs :)  well hope you enjoyed!



these are free roam chickens not caged and eating what they please and being healthy




these are the chickens where you get your grocery eggs from they are squished in cages together and fed crap!




this is an organic grocey store egg and its still not as good as farm fresh eggs!!! :)



May,8,2012 howdy!

Hey friends! i havent uploaded any pictures latley because i cant find my moms camera that ive been using ive been looking everywhere but just cant seem to find it anywhere!!! i think its time for me buy one but i have no money :( darn gotta think so i guess im just going to be giving little lessons not as good but it works for the time being :) well enjoy!

May,4,2012 Happy Friday!!! :) :D :} :] :I

today im just doing a simple little lesson and later im probably going to download some more pictures for you but todays lesson is about predators towards your chickens. its very important to have a safe coop and secured area for them to roam ....foxes, coyotes ,racoons, possums like chickns as a main course so make sure you have all the requirements of a coop and yard :)

may,3,2012 painting the inside of the coop and more

okay so after my trapped in incident the other day ive decided no more wanting the door closed no matter how cold :) but ive started painting the inside of the coop  just for extra insulation,warmth (ect) so here is some pictures of it in the process and also another good tip with raising chicks is make sure you have a cover! hahah i found Nellie roosting on the rim of the chick box when i came home from school to clean there food and water i thought that was funny so i snapped some shots she seems to be particularly interested in my camera but oh well thats all i have for today hope you enjoyed!!

may,2,2012 TRAPPED

okay i have a story for you today......i wanted to paint the inside of our coop and it was really cold outside! and the chicken door only closed from the outside so i asked my sister to close me in for about half an hour so i could finish up...yes this wasn't a very smart idea in the first place but i did a lot of work then i noticed it had already been about an hour so i started yelling for my sister....no answer so i start yelling louder and louder but no one could hear me..so i got real mad and kept painting for about 20 more minutes then started getting really mad and decided no ones coming to get me and im not going to break the door so i had to find a way out!! but where?? then i finally realized i would have to crawl out that tiny chicken door!!! so inch by inch i squeezed myself out(with great difficulty) but just think if i were any bigger i might have been stuck in there all night!!!! well what did we learn today? don't rely on your sisters :) hahaha just joking BUT NEVER LOCK LET SOMONE LOCK YOURSELF IN A           CHICKEN COOP!!!!!!!!  hope you enjoyed !!!

May,1,2012 Good egg laying Chicken breeds

        If you are looking into getting chickens for egg production i highly recomend these breeds listed below,

1. Leghorn

this chicken is a leghorn they are really good egg layers of large white eggs

2. Plymouth Rock

these chickens are very skiddish and do well with a few others of them and they lay brown eggs

3. light Sussex

the light sussex is cocky and they do well in small flocks ,they also  lay large brown eggs

4. rhode island reds

these chickens lay a variety of brown and whitish eggs

thanks Naomi :)

May, 1,2012 welcome new month!!!

i dont know about you but i sure am excited about May , a new month to look foward to with more fun to come, well im planning right now on what color im going to piant over the chicken coop since blue isn't appropriate ;) im thinking barn style with deep red and white outlining? well all in good time but so once again its raining so i cant get any good pictures sadly :'( im sorry tomarrow ill get some for sure! but today im just giving another tip :) enjoy!

April,30,2012 lesson for chicks!

hello everyone !!! i dont have any pictures for you today because its so cold and the chicks would catch a chill so im giving you a tip about chicks:

if you are looking into raising chicks or already are then make sure your heat lamp isnt to close to the chicks in their pen because they will snuggle right under it and get crisped without knowing! chickens are sweet but not the most intelligent creature :) , Also as they grow taller you want to put the lamp higher up because the same method applies they'll get burned up! thanks for reading fallow me!and comment! :)

this is a bad example :)

April 29 2012 the coop and new chicks!

we now have 14 adorable chicks these ones are the ones i got yesterday there all cute fancy breeds like frizzle batams and silkies! :) and here is our coop!...yes my dad painted it blue but im going to put white trim on it hopefully soon you'll be able to see it later :) but anyway here are the newest additions! enjoy!