I have not posted anything for a couple of years and it is high time for some updates. Here is a quick summation of what has happened since my last post:
I had my chickens for an entire year. During that year I became pregnant. In my 3rd trimester it became too much for me to look after the chickens, take care of the garden and prepare for my first child who was due in the middle of harvest time. I gave the chickens away in July, 2010.
Present Day: 25 chicks are due to arrive on April 3rd 2012. We are building a greenhouse, a brooder and a super light-weight chicken tractor designed specifically for our raised bed gardens.
I am so excited to teach our 18 month old daughter about raising poultry!
Photo courtesy of
www.aholliday.com
We had a warm, sunny Easter and we brought a few chicks outside for some super great photo opportunities. My brother took all of these shots. http://andrewholliday.squarespace.com/
We kept the chicks in a brooder in our house until they were 13 days old. They are now in the greenhouse in a brooder as the nights are quite cold still and they don't have all their adult feathers yet. They have moved from the cute and fuzzy stage into the ugly and awkward stage. Their feathers are growing but you mostly see the quills. They look like porcupines on chicken legs.
