Chickens are out of the house!

Yep we put our 8 little chickies into their new chicken coop yesterday and they seem to love it.  I took the 5 that we raised for a friend to her today and so now my bathroom is back to being ours again.  Now to clean it - yuck.  We started putting up fence for the chickens to be in too but I talked to DH and convinced him that we needed to have a gait so we could get in if we needed to so now we need to get some wood for that and hinges.  I'm doing laundry and will be hanging out my first batch on my new line!  Cant wait to have freshly hung laundry! 

I will be posting some more pics of the chicken coop and run later.

Hope you have a terrific Easter!

Talk to ya later!

Denise

updated chicken pics

This was on 3/6

3/10 doing the chicky stretch ;)

3/13

3/13 again

Chicken coop on pallet

We'll be putting on the wheels tomorrow hopefully if it doesnt rain again.

Side view of chicken coop

3/22 My how they have grown!

They have such different coloring too!

We are going to try to get them in the coop on Monday with a heat lamp.  Their box is getting way too small and we dont have a bigger one.  I think they will be much happier in the coop too.

Talk to ya later!

Denise

We got the chicken Coop!!!

It arrived tonight.  Will wait until morning to take pics though.  Right now it is standing in mud...ugh. 

Talk to ya later!

Denise

Playing chicken

All righty then, do I have weird chicks?  Cause they like to pick up a piece of pine shaving and then the one who picked up runs around in circles mind you with all the other chicks chasing her.  So funny.  A few of them even have little tail feathers starting to emerge and they even try to flap their wings (not so funny when they actually get big enough to fly).  They have decided to try to flick out all of their feed onto the floor and then they scratch it so hard the pine shavings go into the water dish.  Can you tell I am entralled? 

Talk to ya later!

Denise

chickie pics!

The pics arent so good because of the red heat lamp we are using.  I will try to get better pics later this week.  By the way we miscounted.  We actually have 13 chicks so they sent us one extra!  They are playing with the pine shavings in the pics and sleeping.  They go until they just fall over.  So funny. 

Here is a pic of what I received for Valentines Day from my farming sister over at Mary Jane's Farm.  The flower is a handmade recipe holder. 

Talk to ya later!

Denise

chicks arrived

I picked them up this morning at the post office around 7 a.m.  Unfortunately we lost three out of the 15 we received so we are down to 12 now.  The rest look very healthy and are cheeping and eating and drinking and pooping.  The first one that died was having problems out of the shipping box.  He was staggering and didnt have his poor little eyes open so I think he just was younger than the others.  Hope we dont lose anymore.  It wasnt hard to pick up their little bodies and put them in the box in the back so DH could bury them cause I wasnt attached to them yet.  They are Golden Comets and are supposed to be all female (which are striped) but I think we may have a rooster cause it's all cream colored with a little red on the head but no stripes.  Our milk lady said she would take some though so that's good.  We even ordered our coop the other day online so hopefully it will get here soon.  There was a 2-3 week wait for that.   Shoot I think we will need a bigger box to put them in before it gets here...;)

The weather is supposed to warm up this weekend so we are going to try to put up the greenhouse.  DH asked for Saturday and Sunday off but we'll have to see if they actually let him have off.  It will be nice to get all the little plantlets off of the counter besides they are getting a bit leggy.

Will be taking pics of the new girls and posting them later.  (Finally us girls will out number the boys in the house lol)

Talk to ya later!

Denise

Oh chickens...

Yes I am talking to you little chickies.  I know that you are not here yet but we have ordered your new home and it should be here in 2-3 weeks.  Hopefully you will be able to live there after a week more because we dont want you to get sick outside.  You will be living in our bathroom until then and no the cats will not be allowed to see you.  I told them about you but I dont think they understood.  We will be keeping 10 of you and the rest will be going to another home after you have grown a bit.  I cant wait to meet you all in person!

Talk to you soon!

Denise