It’s a sad day in the hen house. The last 2 baby chicks have gone missing from the yard. Something has gotten all 4 of the babies. They kept getting out of the yard by squeezing through holes in the wire fence. Mom would shoo them back in when she could. Could have been theRead More
Mom’s new chicks are big enough to join the yard. She will put them in the big henhouse tonight to roost with the other hens all night. That way, the new hens will understand where they are supposed to sleep at night, and won’t be confused about where to go.
Betty is a pretty cool chick. She’s pretty even-keeled and doesn’t scare too easily. She’ll readily come right up to anyone and anything to investigate, but then will lose interest and wander off to something more appealing like bugs in the grass.
Like much of the east coast, Mom got some snow recently in Westminster, MD. How do chickens react to the snow? They didn’t seem to mind too much, as you can see from the photos. Mom put up a curtain across the doorway to the hen house to keep some heat in. She also recentlyRead More
Here’s mom’s henhouse decor. What’s a henhouse without a little extra cuteness? This shows little of moms country flavor she puts into everything. The Rooster Crows, but the Hen Delivers.
When mom cooks eggs, she doesn’t throw the eggshells away, she will crush them up and feed them back to the chickens because it provides calcium that the chickens need. Mom’s Daughter: “Why do you do that?” Mom: “… so I don’t waste nothing…” The hen’s diet has to include a certain amount of shellRead More
Mom upgraded the chicken house again! The chicken house upgrade of 2018 now includes steps and Mom can now walk into, and stand up, in the chicken house.
Chicken House Upgrade first happened in 2012. Mom’s original chicken house was this small hut. Around 2012, the additional side-shed was added as the hen house.