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Babies!

Posted 4/20/2009 12:35pm by Carolyn Boyd.

Happenings at the Farm!

Spring is so much fun! Turkeys are starting to nest, orioles and bluebirds are out in their bright colors and here on the farm, baby chicks are hatching . . . and arriving from the feedstores!

4 hens have been sitting on Ameraucana eggs. It takes 21 days for them to hatch.

hen sitting on eggs

This is a Buff Orpington who decided she wanted to be broody. I figured if she isn't going to lay, she can work hatching the Ameraucana eggs! Everyone has to work for their keep here on the farm!

Hens on eggs

The Black Astrolorps seem to be more interested in nesting than other varieties. Ok, they can be mamas.

Hen with chicks

Hen #1 with a few of the 8 Ameraucana chicks.

Now, for the main crop! This year, so far anyway (sometimes I get carried away!) 25 Barred Rocks, 25 Golden Sex Links, 25 Ameraucanas and 25 Rhode Island Reds were purchased on Saturday. They are amazing . . . seem to know what chickens do from the very start!

New Chicks

Eat, eat, eat!

chicks under heat lamps

Plants are also germinating, growing and getting ready to be transplanted. Salad, anyone? This Simpson Lettuce is going out to the beds and will be ready to harvest soon!

Simpson Looseleaf lettuce

2 Comments »

Dedicated Hosting India said,

11/21/2009 @ 10:09 am

Great..

Enjoyed this post.
The pictures said it all... :)

Regards,
Amit

Robert Montgomery said,

12/20/2010 @ 10:45 pm

I love baby chicks. I raised a bunch of easter time chicks that the gas station gave away. And, one of my uncles owned a chicken ranch in San Diego's Mission Valley when I was growing up back in the 1950s. I used to love everything about the operation except watching the meat birds killed. That was sad.