Our chickens laid their first egg Saturday. We were so excited!
It was pretty small, but we didn’t mind.
We all wanted to give it a try, so we scrambled it and cooked it up. Then we divided the very small egg into five bite size portions Honestly, it just [...]
Our chickens have been growing and growing. They are so fun to watch. We let them free range all of the time that we are home (which is most of the time). We feed them kitchen scraps, so now they all run up to the backdoor anytime someone goes outside hoping we [...]
This is our homemade chicken waterer. As in the feeder, we used two buckets of different sizes. We cut off the bigger one to 2 1/2 ” tall and drilled 3 holes for wires to hang the waterer. In the smaller bucket, we drilled 4 holes around the top at the level we wanted the [...]
Here’s our homemade chicken feeder. We used two buckets of different sizes. The bigger one, we cut off all but the bottom couple of inches. In the smaller one, we cut half oval shaped holes for the feed to come out along the bottom. Then we screwed the smaller bucket inside of the bigger bucket. [...]
Here’s the chicken tractor my Dad built for our chickens. He used almost all recycled materials. He had to buy a couple of hinges and we had to buy the wire for around the bottom. It is 4′x10′ and about 6′ tall. We used regular chicken wire around the bottom because they will only be [...]
We got baby chicks last week.
Ten of them. They really aren’t much trouble to take care of. They just need warmth, clean food and water.
I figure the kids are learning some science and also about responsibility.
And, with any luck, we’ll have fresh eggs in about 5 months!
