It has been a whole entire year since I mentioned my chickens, and I was really excited to tell you about them then. I am even more excited about it now!!!
6+2+4+5 = our current chicken math number line
Would you think I was crazy if I told you we ordered 60 more? O_O
<<<< Last years post about our chickens!
If you read my first chicken post, you know I originally ordered 6 and they shipped me 8!! Now in August 2022 we went and bought 4 more chickens, our chicken math went to 12 total birds. Not even 5 months later, we bought 5 more babies - bringing our current chicken layer total to 17!
Here is a picture of the chickens who are currently out in the coop!! The Wyandotte is SO pretty!
I told you chicken math is a real thing.
So if you ever plan on getting chickens, be prepared for at least double than what you originally planned for!
Currently our chicken coop is a friggen hot mess, but I am here to be honest and show you how it is for me day-to-day. Currently we are getting about 10 eggs a day out of our 12 adult chickens, which gives us about 6 dozen eggs a week!! Subscribe with your e-mail and get notified to learn how I preserve my eggs and what we do with all the extras!
Every morning I go out and make sure the chickens are fed and watered. They pretend they love me until I go to pet one of them and then they act like I'm killing them so...
We currently have 8 barred rocks, 1 bantam (her name is chocolate, she looks like a pigeon and she lays white eggs.), 2 Rhode Island Reds, 1 Wyandotte.
If you caught me earlier I mentioned that I had ordered 60 more chickens.... well, I wasn't lying, they are scheduled to hatch on April 11th. However, these will be our "meat chickens."
We will grow and process them ourselves over the course of 8 weeks!! If that is something you are interested in, then please follow along!!
Back to the COOP!
The little chicken in the front is Chocolate, she is a bantam and she lays duck sized eggs that are white with a slight hint of pink. We like to boil her eggs and they are a great bite sized snack!!
Thanks Chocolate!
This little bird is probably our most docile, Abigail named her and it is her chicken, and 9/10 times Abigail is the only one she let's pick her up.
I will give you a little peep into our coop, but just be warned there is poop and it isn't perfect!!
First picture is the roost on the left when you enter the coop, some chickens lay their eggs in the front left corner of the floor. The second picture is of our "brooder box"/shit shelf & roost. We will put our baby chickens in the brooder box under this roost when we are trying to familiarize our chickens. Lastly, here is a chicken getting ready to lay an egg in our nesting box (which needs more bedding)!! I'm not sure what this one's name is (we lost track of the barred rocks cause they all look the same), but her name is either Wiggles, Dinosaur, Bertha, Karen or Cupcake.
I look forward to posting more about our chickens, they are hilarious and truly entertaining, plus they feed us!!! Keep an eye out for my meat chicken post and be sure to enter your email for post dates. See ya soon! <3
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