Raising Baby Chicks, Chicago Style
Last month, (April) my son’s class setup an incubator in the class. They were learning about the eggs, life cycle of eggs and chickens. The eggs hatched on April 29th, as my son dutifully informed me....
View ArticleOur backyard chickens and new coop
It’s been more than 2 months since we brought Fluffy and Yellow home. They were merely 4-day-old chicks when we got them. (Read how we got them here) We kept them in a brooder at home for a while. We...
View ArticleRodent proofing the chicken coop and the first egg
When we setup the coop initially, I’ve read about putting chicken wire down in the soil around the perimeter but I got lazy and skipped it at the time. As it started to get colder, I’ve heard about...
View ArticleHow to winterize your chicken coop
Once we rodent proofed our coop, I wanted to insulate the coop to get ready for Chicago winter. I am really glad I set out early because I made some mistakes in my initial design and had to redo the...
View ArticleBackyard Chickens 2014
We’ve had drastic changes with our backyard chickens since I wrote my last post about winterizing chicken coop. We’ve had a really harsh winter with two weeks of sub zero temperatures. Yellow and Chick...
View ArticleAdventures of runaway chickens
The last two chicks we’ve adopted turned out to have very different personalities than the ones we had before. We had a White Leghorn Rooster (Fluffy), an Orpington (Yellow) hen and an Austrolorp...
View ArticleDIY: Chicken Waterer from Beverage Cooler
In order to avoid any illnesses that other birds might bring over by using our chicken’s waterer, I decided to make a waterer with nipples. I didn’t use the water pipe to attach nipples because, first...
View ArticleChickens make great pets
LET ME TELL YOU WHY I THINK CHICKENS MAKE GREAT PETS We’ve celebrated our 4th anniversary of being backyard chicken owners this past month. It’s amazing how time flew since my son came home with a...
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