Hello, Friends! Welcome.
We’ll have something more….helpful, for you later this week. But we thought we’d start your week off light, and just share some recent photos I’ve taken of our rooster and hens. A little flock photography fun, if you will! Thought you might enjoy them.
Sweet ‘Kingston’, our Buff Orpington. She’s Michael’s baby.
Eggs are a staple food item, in most anyone’s kitchen. They are quite popular for breakfast: as scrambled, over-easy, hard-boiled, poached, or omelet style! They make incredible egg salads for lunch, and are called for in most baking recipes. And let’s not forget most every mother’s favorite backup plan; Breakfast for Dinner!
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My family and I live on the south shore of Massachusetts, now. But I (Laura) was born and raised out in western MA, in the city of Westfield. Most times when I go back home to my parent’s house, my father urges me to take anything in the house that I want, for myself. “Anything at all”, he stresses. I most always dismiss his invitation because, frankly, I want everything to stay there, just as it is. Forever, really. But at least, for as long as possible.
You see, my mother passed away in 2005. It’s so hard for me to believe it’s been that long already. But what’s harder for most others to believe, is that my father has kept everything in the house, just as it was when my mother was there. He even keeps it clean. Vacuumed, dusted, the dishes done; everything. You’d think she was still there.
It’s a 100 year old 3-story, 2 family house. Walking into that house, [Read more…]
Last night, we re-homed one of our cockerels; Boston.
He was our Americauna Easter Egger.
We knew in time, we were in all likelihood, going to have to get rid of one, if not both, of the roosters.
We never intended on having one in the first place!
For those who do not know the back-story; We ordered 8 vent-sexed 1-day old chicks, as females in July. But as time passed, we realized we not only had 1, but 2, roosters on our hands. 6 hens, with 2 roosters, is a very bad idea. A ratio of 6 to 1 isn’t much better! But we figured we had at least until the end of the year, when the hens started laying, to figure out what we needed to do. Or until a neighbor complained about the cocka-doodle-doo’ing, bright and early. We believed it would probably become clear which of the two, if not both, had to go, as the months passed on. It became clear much sooner, however, that that one, was Boston.
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Finally, we are ready to reveal to you the chicken coop that has been in the works for 2 months!
We know many of you have been waiting to see it, and we have to tell you, we’re pretty darn excited to show it to you!
PLEASE NOTE: There are many photos in this post, so please give them time to load. Then at the end there is a link to even more photos that I thought some would like to see, such as early stages of the coop being built (for those who may have missed it on Facebook), the inside of the coop, and and a closer look at some of it’s other cool features.
So, as lots of people know, I have wanted to get some chickens for so very long! Michael has always said I could, but the time was just not right for a long time, while we got the inside of our home finished, our property set up as we wanted it, and ready, etc.
It’s been a long time coming, but we’ve been living the little dream now, of having chickens, since we got 1 day old chicks about a week into July of this year. Chicken-keeping has been as fun and exciting as we ever thought it would be!
All I ever wanted or dreamed of for my someday-chickens, was a small and very simple coop. But, Michael really goes all out when he gets brain-storming. He’s very creative, ingenious, and handy in craftmanship, and well, he got sketching, as always. The detailed features also grew as he built it, and it has been pretty amazing and exciting to see it all come to life, built from the ground up, from what stared as little possible plans on paper.
Many of you who follow us on Facebook were able to see some progress photos of the coop that we shared, as we began to build.
The photo above was as far as we took you before we decided that anymore might ruin the surprise of the final reveal.
Especially when we were getting ready to stain it with color! We figured many would be most curious about what color we’d choose.
(I mean, that’s an important and fun decision that needs to be made, I think.)
I considered many colors, but there was really one that was always just how I imagined my someday-chick-coop in my head, and while I looked at other colors, I just never could let go of that original image in my head go.
We hope you love it as we do, but it’s really o.k. if you don’t. (We still will.).
And now for our 97% finished coop . . . . . .
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