Jelly has laid her first egg today! She has scoliosis, so we weren’t sure how well things were going to go, but there were no complications and it is a very nice looking egg with a very thick bloom! I’m so proud of her. First of young girls to stop being a freeloader!
Woop woop! All of the babies have made it, and we are ecstatic! They are all getting very big, which we are guessing is a result of their father because their mothers weren’t exactly huge. I don’t have many great individual pictures because they all like to climb on me at the same time! I have a...
So, we decided to keep all five of them. My mom decided that 10 chickens or 12, doesn’t really make much of a difference. So meet the new members of the family!
This is Bean. We think this is our little roo, and we also believe that he may be Zazu’s baby! We didn’t realise this until after he...
There are now five babies! Most of them look about the same, but we did end up with a dark baby in the midst of our little yellow fluffballs. We are calling it Bean. We aren’t really sure what breed their father is, might ask my neighbour at some point. Popcorn is still significantly bigger than...
Alright! The egg hatching process has officially begun! We’ve got two that have already escaped their confinement and now wander the incubator
This one we’ve decided to call Popcorn because of how quickly it popped out of its egg! It only took like four hours from first sign of pipping to fully...
The eggs are in lockdown right now! They are due to hatch in about two-three days (: we have six in there right now, and one of them is from one of the girls we lost! It’s actually looking super good, so we are confident that we will get that one to hatch. We have done everything we can, got the...
As some of you know by seeing two of my other posts, I lost two of my girls to a dog attack. We are devastated by this, and we are attempting to incubate their last eggs in hopes of hatching out their babies to keep a part of them alive. Their names were Zazu and Nugget. Zazu was my beautiful...
All of the girls are doing great right now. I don’t have many new pictures, but they are getting big! It is also becoming much more apparent that something is a bit off about poor Jelly’s back- likely scoliosis. She’s a bit slower than the other chickens, and walks with a hunch in her back. Her...
Been a minute, but I have many pictures of my girls! They are doing pretty good with the cold onset, so I’m pretty confident that we will have a good winter. Been feeding them some warm oatmeal with cayenne pepper to help circulation to their feet. I read that it helped somewhere. They also just...
Hello! Some of you may have seen these guys already, but I feel the need to share them wherever I can. They are just too cute not to!
First, we have our first four babies. They were so little! The first pictures were about 5-6 months ago, when our laying hens were tiny. We got them when they...