Another Weekly Update: Week 1 for Baby Chicks
I realize it has been FOREVER since I have done a weekly update. I have been moving a lot of stuff around, cleaning things, etc. I have also been really […]
Category Archives: Chickens
The Cold Brooder for 25 chicks
Let me preface this post by saying that I wanted to be a green as possible with this batch of chicks. Since we live in the south east, and it […]
The New Babies are Here!!!
How many urban post offices get chickens sent to them? Walk up to the counter and say “we have the noisy box”. They laugh, and bring us our chicks. Open […]
El Monstro is No More: Week 7
Got a WHOLE bunch of work done at the homestead this week! Picked up six free Angora and Lionhead mix rabbits this week for free food, as well as paying […]
Six Weeks of Crazy, and a Saturday to Forget
This week, I got my Sawzall and angle grinder, so I have been tearing up the pallets needed to construct the new quail and guinea pig cages! YAY! I also […]
The Continuing Saga of Monster Chicken: Week 5
What a week! From archery, to canoeing, to agricultural history, it has been a great one! The quail eggs will be arriving some time in the next few days. and […]
The Crazy Experiment, Week 4
I didn’t really manage to get as much work done on the homestead as I planned (I am pretty sure that is a problem with ALL homesteaders…), but good things […]
Week 3 on the Urban Farmstead…
I realize that last week, I didn’t do my weekly update until like, Thursday. I was sick. I am still sick now, but at least I am moving again! I […]
On the Farm, Week 2
Last Sunday, we went back to the auction and picked up 11 quail (Coturnix). There were three males, and 8 females (I THINK, I can’t vent sex for the life […]
Apartment Acres is Baaaa-aack!
Well, I suppose that it can’t be apartment acres, as we now live on like, 0.75 acres… so it is appropriate for us to have birds now. After a lovely […]
End of Camp Acres
Another one of the baby Californians died this week. They had plenty of food and water, and were slowly added on to grass. I think we may have introduced them […]
Spicy Chicken Burgers
So, I butchered two of my Rhode Island Reds, as they hit maturity. Because these birds are typically egg layers, they aren’t the crazy frankenchickens that can’t stand by the […]
Camp Acres – Week 13
After the incident of bunny heatstroke last week, baby bunny made it through a week of oppressive humidity and heat before succumbing. I was honestly crushed, since I was on […]
Price of Building a Chicken Tractor
I am procrastinating on my dissertation… therefore, I decided to write a blog post on the cost of making the chicken tractor, as requested. This isn’t a design plan, because […]
Camp Acres – Week 9 and 10
So, I have had back to back weekends with Agility Trials, so I haven’t gotten to update as planned. Every year at camp, the state health inspector comes. My boss […]
Camp Acres, Week 8
The chickens have moved permanently to a new home. The 12 of them are snug inside the coop at night (as it is only 0.7 square feet per chicken); however, […]
Chicken Program #2: Finished Tractor!
We made many different colors of paint (acrylic) available to girls aged 6-9 (and the helping CIT2’s). I didn’t know exactly what would happen in this mural of craziness, but […]
Chicken Program #1
So, last week, I featured the rabbit program. They are still majorly successful due to the cute, fuzzy factor. Well, what about the chickens? Today, I was going to do […]
Chicken Tractor: Part 2
This entire thing is taking longer than I thought it would. This is because the CIT’s now are working hard on their shadowing (following various staff), so I had to […]
Counselors in Training Program 1: Chicken Tractor Building
So, we have some lovely chickens, which means it is time to build them a house at camp. I decided on building them a triangular chicken coop, with a nightly […]
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