spring peepers
Happy Easter everyone! We just picked up our first baby chicks- two Ameraucanas (Easter Eggers… how fitting!), a Golden Laced Wyandotte, a California White Leghorn (will be white with black polka dots and lay large white eggs like a mo-fo), and a Red Star… ditto like the Leghorn but brown eggs. Should give us a nice balance between beautiful birds and fancy-pants eggs, and feed conversion and consistent laying.
Our soon-to-be backyard birds are of course too small to live outside on their own yet… which is a good thing, since we still need to get a chicken coop ready for them! They’re currently living in a Rubbermaid tote repurposed as a brooder on top of our bathtub. The bathroom being the only room at the cabin with a door (for dog-excluding and heat-retention… brrr it’s cold in here). You can hear their tiny “peeppeeppeep”‘s through the closed door. It’s super cute, and probably dog torture as her crate is in the kitchen… but she’s got to get over her chicken obsession one way or another… maybe exposure therapy will work?
Ok, a fish fry awaits at a friend’s house… time to wrap things up here and head out, but I wanted to give y’all this EGGciting update first!
Congrats. Those are good looking chicks. We have 1 3week old duckling and 13 eggs in the ‘bator. Here’s to good health in the brooder!
You’ll love your Ameraucana eggs! I rescued three hens from an organic farm that was getting ready to purge their flock. I have have an Ameraucana, a Barred Rock, and a Buff Orpington. Not to be outdone by the Ameraucana, the buff lays pink eggs.