chickens – Page 5 – Gracious Rain

April 4, 2016March 23, 2023

Chicky Conference

We’ve been trying to hold the baby birdies as often as we can so that they are people friendly when they get big.

So, while our church’s General Conference was on tv we decided to take the girls out and hold them one at a time.

Rhen’s a bit partial to the Russian chickies, so he only really holds them.

But look how cool their feathers are growing in. They are only a whopping 3 weeks old, but I’m amazed at how fast they are growing.

Even though I was playing with this cute little sweetie, I promise I was still listening to conference.

Well, most of the time.

March 28, 2016January 16, 2023

Meeting The Kids

Of course, I wasn’t the only one who was excited at taking this first step…

into…ahem…farm life. Wee step, though it is.

The kids have all taken turns coming over to snuggle…

and hold…

and stare at…

and hold–some more–these pretty babies. I truly have dreamed of being this kind of Grammy.

So my little sweethearts could come over and have a good, old, earthy, relaxing time with dear little animals. If I had more room–there’d be a cow and a couple of goats in the back too.

This’ll do for now.

This’ll do, indeed.

March 21, 2016January 16, 2023

My Sweet Babies

Look how big my babies are getting after only a WEEK!

Their wing feathers are growing more visible now. Oh, and we have..ahem…two more than we had last week.

The new girls look a lot like the black stripe-y Barred Rock, but they’re more black–at least for now. But get this–they lay eggs that look like CHOCOLATE Easter eggs.

Yeah, I really didn’t have any choice. I had to buy them.

I gave them a little pile of weeds and they LOVED it. Of course, they think they are all grown-up–pecking and scratching like big girls–but in reality I don’t think they actually ate much.

But they are so dang cute!

March 14, 2016January 16, 2023

Over The Moon~

LOOOOOK!!! I have my cute little chickies!! I can’t even begin to tell you how excited I am to finally get my very first batch of babies here.

If you know me, even a little, you probably know that I have wanted chickens of my own since I was a little girl. Heaven knows THAT is a long time! Well, the day is finally here my friends. To say that I’m “over the moon” is to put it lightly.

It’s so much fun to take care of them too. I wondered if it would be scary, but it’s not. It’s amazing. They get so excited when anything happens, you know like– changing their water or moving their food dish. They run around chirping like it’s Christmas. It’s awesome I tell you.

This is Tootsie. She and her sister Ruby are our Rhode Island Reds.

Hen Rhode Island Red

She will look like this someday.

And this is Mable. She and her sisters Ji (that’s Chinese for “chicken.”), and Oreo are Barred Rock babies.

hen Barred Rock

This is what they’ll grow up to be.

This is one of our Russian Orloffs.

And this is her sister. They don’t have proper names, because our resident Russian expert hasn’t named them yet. I think he wants to get to know them a bit first. Sheesh.

Hen Russian Orloff