We’re excited to share with you our first eggs – and all the colors that go with them! Great job little ladies! <3
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Welcome to the McMansion
We discussed all the things we were looking for in a coop in our previous post about Picking a Chicken Coop and how much “fun” it was lugging that huge pallet home in our Getting the Coop Home post. Now let’s look in all the steps to getting this beast setup. First off, the painting….
Continue ReadingWe got our Chicks! Week 4 – 9
I know, I know we’re really cheating on the whole “post per week” thing, but turns out chicks are super cute, then kinda boring until they get their full set of feathers in. They mostly just eat, poop (and poop and poop!) and practice doing chick things. I will say “teenagers” do excel at looking…
Continue ReadingWe got our chicks! – Weeks 2 & 3
We’re slackers (but work is now better and less busy!) 😉 Our chicks are now almost 12 weeks old, but we did still want to share some of their milestones with you all. Hope you enjoy them! Week two with the chicks and everyone went pretty pretty well. Two of the Cuckoos had a bit…
Continue ReadingWe got our chicks! – Week 1
A look into our first week at having baby chicks!
Continue ReadingWhen is a hexagon, also an octagon?
We are headed up to pickup our chicks today! Before we get them settled we wanted to go over our indoor coop setup and how we defeat math (or it defeated us… we’re still not sure).
Continue ReadingChicken Preppers
Less than a week until we get our tiny fluff nuggets. We’ll be talking about all the prepping we’ve been doing to make sure we have the supplies we need!
Continue ReadingGetting the Coop Home
Oh the adventures of getting a coop. We got notice today from the shipping company that our coop had arrived in Des Moines and was ready to pickup. This was a bit ahead of schedule which made from some exciting times. Read on to see how we got this massive beast home to our farm.
Continue ReadingPicking a Chicken Coop
Okay, our chickens are ordered and are set to arrive March 26th! Let’s take what our long terms plans are when they become adults.
Continue ReadingPicking our Chicks!!!
The most fun part about chickens is picking out the breeds. Most baby chicks will all look the same with a few variation of coloring adults turn into all shapes and sizes. Adults, however, come in a crazy amount of different colors, shapes, and sizes. Let’s dive a bit into the chicken world and see what all we can sort out!
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