Articles by Mama&thePeeps

And here's one of the silkies from our first hatch! (May 6, 2010) - (obviously not full silkies) Here they are at one day old. We have one Buff Silkie and five of the Black. Here's the buff one at day 10. And the all black one (day 10) Black colored one (4 of them look like this...

Welcome to Mama&thePeeps' BYC's pages 3 llamas, 2 alpacas, 4 leghorn hens, 4 RIR hens, 6 silkie hens, 2 silkie roos Our first chickens arrived at three weeks of age in early March, 2009. We let them out briefly into the yard for fresh air occasionally. (4 wks old) We received a used...

Since the ladies have grown up, we've missed having babies around, so we got two little girls from TSC in spring 2010: This is Beatrice and Florence at 5 days old. Of course, just adding two to the flock wasn't enough. So we currently have 9 silky eggs in the incubator as well. UPDATE...

We thought our ladies deserved some time with some real grass since they've eaten everything in their run. So we designed this chicken tractor from looking at many different styles and using materials we had on hand already. We have two handles on each end for lifting and carrying, and a rope...