Our little Farm...

Friday, October 22, 2010

Chicken Math...

How does this chicken math work again... I'm confused!

Sell 9, trade 4, give 1 away...
Then hatch out 3, but 12 in bator and get 5 while your visiting a friend, lol

Got these 4 beautiful hens and 1 rooster while I was at my friends house pickin up Porkchop

... 58 Chickens Now ...

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Isnt she cute! I fell in love with her as soon as I saw her! One of my wonderful old friends gave her to me, I went and picked her up yesterday while the teenagers were at school. Everyone thinks she is so cute and shes already spoiled! Shes gonna have a great life on Our Little Farm.

Here she is with her sisters and brothers

After her 1st bath

Nice and Clean

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Oct. Bator Hatch

Got my bator fixed so ya know I had to test it out...

I put only 4 eggs from my barnyard flock in it on Sept. 25 (3 made it to lockdown). The first two hatched Saturday (10-16-10) and the 3rd one on Sunday (10-17-10).

I get to watch chickie tv again!

Monday, October 18, 2010

Chickens... Coming and Going.

Lets see... alots been going on here at Our Little Farm. I've traded, sold, hatched, processed chickens all in one week. First I traded some chickens with Susie. Then sold 2 rooster and 7 hens to an older couple that stopped in (and they bought 2 dozen eggs). Then I hatched out 3 chicks over the weekend, blog coming soon. Finally we process our extra rooster on Saturday too... ended up with 10 in freezer camp. I weighed them after I cleaned em... 3-4lbs., 3-3 lbs., 3-2 lbs., 3-2.5 lbs. and 1-2 lb. (I'm keeping one "Big Red" and then we are letting the other 3 grow and plump up)
***Warning... Pics. of processing Roosters Below.***

Katiegirl...
I admire you for being able to process your chickens/turkeys. Maybe one day I'll be able to. Right now I'm just the helper and the chicken cleaner/cooker :)

Heres our chicken count for now...
10 Roosters (7 keepin, 3 going) , 34 Hens (26 are layers, 8 are pullets) and 9 Chicks = 53

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Goodbye Girls...

My friend Susie came down for a visit/chicken trade with her 4 kids this week (her husband had to work). Susie bought 5 chicks from me in April well it just so happened that all 5 are roosters!!! Cant have that so I made a deal with her, I'd trade her 4 hens for 4 roosters (we are going to process them this Saturday). She even went home with 2 cute young bantams (from Chipmunks hatch). Her kids had so much fun checking out our little farm, it was so cute watching them run all around! I cant wait for them to come back down and hang out longer :)