Articles by CathyB

Hot Wings Hotel My name is Cathy, and my family and I live in a rural area of Pennsylvania. I had a chicken in college and loved the idea of chickens as pets. After reading about the battery hens, and their horrible conditions, I went to my husband and asked him if I could raise chickens for...

Cathy's Country Chicken Farm! 2008-04-20 My name is Cathy and I live in the lehigh Valley, PA. We are expecting 10 chicks May 16th. I am getting 3 EE'ers , 3 Barred Rocks, and 4 RIR pullets. I will be raising chickens for their egg laying and they all will have a forever home with us until...

2008-05-27 The girls are growing so fast! Here they are at two weeks old!

Run posts go in!!!! 2008-04-27 Ok , so today me and DH, well mostly DH, put the run posts in. We were one post shy so DH has to get one more and bring that home tomorrow! Here are some pictures so you can see where the run will be! The fencing in the backgrouns will go around the run...

2008-05-26 Some progress was made this weekend. All posts are in! The framework for my covered area in front of the coop is done! Large guage fencing around bottom almost done! It is starting to look like something! 2008-06-21 Ok, the chicks are in the run! Everything is done structurally...

After many months here it is!!!! Had to share this last picture as it was a country stores garage sale find. I paid $10!!!!!