by Susan | May 1, 2012 | Chickens, On the Farm
I’ve been on Shadow watch the last couple of days. When I poked my head in the banty coop tonight I saw an egg shell lying next to Shadow. Although I didn’t hear any telltale peeps, I all but danced inside to get Paul and Hannah. We gathered up water and...
by Susan | Feb 4, 2012 | Chickens, On the Farm
Pepper, the Banty Rooster, is close to loosing his happy home. He’s one of two roosters in the Banty B&B. I think Pepper has a Napoleon complex – little in stature and big on aggressiveness. He cock-a-doodle-doos at o’dark-thirty – before the sun is up...
by Susan | Jan 28, 2012 | Chickens, On the Farm
Look what Hannah found this morning when visiting the Banties. Our first bantam chicken eggs! We got these little chickens in August. They were on clearance at the Blue Seal store. Who could resist $1 chickens? Six months after their arrival at Downeast Thunder Farm...
by Susan | Jan 1, 2012 | Chickens, On the Farm
Nesting box number 6 is the place to be if you’re a chicken. We have six nesting boxes in our large coop, but box number 6 is the most popular. Some days we find all of our eggs in this one box. (Seven eggs today – a record!) This is what I found when I...
by Susan | Nov 2, 2011 | Chickens, On the Farm
The Girls may may not be laying yet, but they (and The Colonel) do come in handy. They had a grand time recycling Jack O’Lanterns today! Update: The next day, here’s what was left.
by Susan | Sep 30, 2011 | On the Farm
The duckies taking a morning snooze in the shade. A close-up of our bantam ameracauna rooster, Pepper. Or Dr. Pepper as we’ve taken to calling him.
by Susan | Sep 28, 2011 | On My Mind
Back in July, I explained how chicken math works. We went to town for chicken wire and came home with four baby bantam chickens from the end of season chick sale. These cuties cost us all of $4. Or so we thought. The trouble started when we attempted to introduce the...
by Susan | Sep 25, 2011 | On the Farm
The Turkey Dudes moved out of the garage today! Hooray! Paul mucked out the meat chicken run and got it set up for the Turkey Dudes with a little shelter and a roost. They were cautious as they explored their new surroundings. We watched them for a while as they...
by Susan | Sep 11, 2011 | On the Farm
Beautiful weather gave us the opportunity to work on all kinds of outdoor projects. Paul focused on getting wood cut and stacked for the winter while I worked on garden and turkey projects! And you wonder why we don’t let the ducks and chickens run lose. As soon...
by Susan | Sep 10, 2011 | Chickens
At long last my mudroom is empty of all livestock! Today we finished the bantam chicken coop we started last weekend. Clover, Pepper, Salt, and Shadow have checked into the Banty B & B (click here to see the coop going together). I imagine they’re a little...
by Susan | Aug 14, 2011 | Chickens, Turkeys
by Susan | Jul 30, 2011 | Chickens
We went to town today for a roll of 6′ x 50′ chicken wire and came home with four bantam chicks and no chicken wire. How did that happen? It had to be Chicken Math. These little cuties were $1 each – end of the season left-over chick sale. Who can...
