Connecticut Chicken Coop

Old bedding composted, coop hosed out and whitewashed with diatomaceous earth slurry.  The Jersey Giant chicks are in with their nightlight ...

Moved on to better pastures. Time to clean everything and move the Jersey chickens outside.

The next crop of chicks has arrived from My Pet Chicken .  Six Jersey Giants who are vaccinated and supposedly all female.  The current crop...

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Processed the rooster today. First bird ever processed. I thought I might take pictures, but it got visceral really quickly. Catch rooster...

I cleaned out the coop today. This entailed the following activities: Build a compost containment unit for the old wood pellets. Finding f...

The one laying hen lays her egg at ~8am every day. That is also the time the light turns on in the hen house. I hope the other four, when ...