Ice Skating Chickens

What a surprise! No, not the cold weather, we saw that in the local forecast, temps in the teens, breezy to drive the wind chill into single digits. So no surprise the pond was frozen over, and the chicken waterers would also be iced up. The morning routine is to let the hens out, feed…

Sophia Red

It is difficult for us to tell some of the hens apart, which one is which?  Particularly with the Barred Rocks.  The Wyandottes too are are very similar in appearance, but the differences are a bit easier to tell.  Except when they are all moving about with the rest of the flock, they sort of…

Second Batch of Baby Chicks

So we got our second batch of chicks this Wednesday. We bought them from the local Orsheln’s Farm Supply. The farm supply gets their chicks from Estes Hatchery in Springfield, Missouri. Checking the Estes website, the hatch date was August 31st. Currently they are showing hatch dates of each Wednesday. I’m not certain they don’t…