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Our friend Fjud spent his Sunday building our chicks a bigger brooder. Because we got the chicks so late in the season and because winter here is so brutal, we are going to  have to keep these babies inside a bit longer than we have when we’ve gotten them before, in the spring or earlyContinue reading “New Brooder Equals Unrivaled Space”

Spindy, on one of her in-home nights This week, we put down Spinderella (our favorite hen), got a set of 4 baby chicks, and buried one of said baby chicks. It was a tumultuous week for the flock and for its owners. Back in July, Spinderella began acting lethargic, not excited for the mealworms orContinue reading “A Flock in Chaos: A Tumultuous Week of Backyard Chicken Keeping”

Quite easily, our little peepers have moved out of the house. We, the human parents, are officially empty-nesting, while the teens are out having a ball in the spring time living it up inside their brand-new big run. No looking back, no calling home, no remorse or sadness. Leaving the confines and safety of theContinue reading “One Big Happy Coop”

Our little peeping fuzzballs are transforming into awkward (but cute) pullets! By the time our previous batches of chicks were at this age, we had been able to take the little buggers outside each day for a bit. This year’s poor chicks have only been out once! They must  think they’ve come to live inContinue reading “Snow? The Chicks are Not Fans”

 Is there anything cuter than Lucy-Poo?  On Sunday, the high hit 80 degrees. The chicks should be at 80 degrees by this Wednesday, so we figured we could take them out for a few minutes at least. If you’re thinking about getting chicks, an important fact to know is that their first weekContinue reading “Four Frolicking Friends: the Chicks’ First Day Out”

Today started off quite sad: we had to put down our little Marley. Over the past two weeks, we’ve watched Marley go from a feisty cockerel to an emaciated, depressed, and withdrawn little chick. The third week in July, we noticed that Marley was limping on one leg. We did some online research and readContinue reading “Good-bye Marley”

On July 8th, at 6:07 A.M., the phone woke Andy and me up. The post office called to tell us our baby chicks had arrived. Groggy, we quickly scrambled downstairs to get a new brooder filled with litter and ready for our day-old-chicks. When the chicks arrived, I couldn’t wait to rip open the boxContinue reading “A Visit from the Stork”

Monday night marked the first night that we officially went to bed as chicken parents. Yes, we are effectively calling ourselves “chicken parents.” I never would have thought that I could hold so much affection for poultry, but it’s hard to be rational with such sweet little beady eyes and such endearing cocks of the head looking up atContinue reading “Peep, Peep: Our First Chickens”