We have three chicken coops right now at Crooked Acres.

This is the main coop, where the majority of our chickens live (and where they all eventually end up). Built by Fred last year, it currently holds 90 - 100 chickens of varying ages. It could conceivably house about 250 - 300 chickens if it had […]

The newest chicks are two weeks old now, and are feathering out and are starting to get cute little tails. They’re adorable still, haven’t hit their ugly and gawky (yet somehow still cute) stage just yet.

One of the two babies born of a Crested Polish mother. S/he has a tiny little mohawk starting.

Wee mohawk in […]

The eggs we put in the incubator almost three weeks ago have started to hatch! Number one came early this morning. Then for a long time, nothing. Finally we got numbers two and three pretty close together, and recently got number four.

Number one is the reddish one in the back. Number two’s over there on […]

Fred candled the eggs that are in the incubator. To our disappointment, of the thirty-five eggs we got from the guy at the flea market, only six held viable embryos. Of the seven of OUR eggs that we put in the incubator, all seven have viable embryos.
So right now, we’ve got 13 eggs left in […]

This afternoon, Fred put 42 eggs in the incubator.
7 of those eggs came from our chickens (two small white ones from the Polish chickens, one from Sassy (the chicken who flies out of the chicken yard to lay her egg in the old chicken coop every day), and four other assorted eggs).
35 of those […]