Chickens – Sunset Creek Farms

WE GOT EGGS – And a Doug!

Posted on September 6, 2019November 26, 2019 by Ellen Hartstack

We’re excited to share with you our first eggs – and all the colors that go with them! Great job little ladies! <3

Welcome to the McMansion

Posted on July 26, 2019July 26, 2019 by Ellen Hartstack

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….

We got our Chicks! Week 4 – 9

Posted on June 25, 2019February 1, 2020 by Ellen Hartstack

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…

We got our chicks! – Weeks 2 & 3

Posted on June 15, 2019February 1, 2020 by Ellen Hartstack

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…

We got our chicks! – Week 1

Posted on April 27, 2019April 27, 2019 by Ellen Hartstack

A look into our first week at having baby chicks!

When is a hexagon, also an octagon?

Posted on March 26, 2019March 26, 2019 by Ellen Hartstack

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).

Chicken Preppers

Posted on March 20, 2019March 26, 2019 by Ellen Hartstack

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!

Getting the Coop Home

Posted on February 5, 2019February 10, 2019 by Ellen Hartstack

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.

Picking a Chicken Coop

Posted on January 15, 2019February 10, 2019 by Ellen Hartstack

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.

Picking our Chicks!!!

Posted on January 10, 2019February 10, 2019 by Ellen Hartstack

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!