I Guess our rooster doesn't like tattoos! Charlie flogged Alan when he was leaving the hen house, got him completely by surprise and thi...

What do we do when it is 25 degrees outside with 14 mph winds? We butchered, not that we really wanted to but, we had to, we butchered 6 chi...

Robin and Willow This morning is cold, its the kind of cold that chills you to the bone as soon as you walk outside. I greeted the Horses w...

When I went into the chicken coop tonight to collect eggs and secure the chickens....I found a thief! All curled up in one of the nest boxe...

Meet some of our feathered friends, Little Red Hen Cant a girl get some privacy? Fresh eggs in the nest box Big Boy Look at me, aren't ...

I wanted to share some pictures of our new baby chicks, we have 11 little fluffy chicks right now and we are waiting to see if anymore will ...

Our little chicks are starting to hatch out! In this picture you can see a little beak poking through the egg! And here is the little one j...

We candled the eggs in the incubator last night, The tools you need to candle an egg are very simple, We used an empty coffee can that we c...

This is our first attempt to incubate eggs We set 20 chicken eggs in the incubator on March 9, 2008 The temperature and water levels are c...

It has been very cold here the last several weeks, we had an ice storm last weekend and today it is snowing. The night time temperatures hav...

I am a warm weather kind of gal and this morning has proved that to me, I wake up at 5 am and get that all important first cup of coffee in ...

This is Bebub, Our cat who stayed in the barn all day because of the rain, He sits here waiting on his turn to be fed! This is Queenie sit...

Well with the help of my friends at Homestead.org, we have come to the conclusion, the animal that killed my chickens is probably a raccoon....

Today is a sad Day, Last night something got into the chicken coop and killed 9 of our chickens, what ever they were, they killed Rascal, Fa...

Fancy is our one and only Buff Cochin Bantam, He arrived as a freebie with our meat chickens and had grew up with them until they were no lo...

Collecting eggs is very fun! I enjoy it like a game almost! Its fun to go into the coop and look in the nesting box's to find the days ...

I enjoy having chickens and watching their antics! I never thought about raising these kinds of animals before we moved to PA but, I really ...