Chris and Jenni

Catching up with my videos. Here’s one of Cait taking some of her first steps, this video was taken a couple days after she first started to walk. She’s getting more confident each day and the older kids love to see her trying to walk, she gets lots of cheering and encouragement which always makes […]

…or I guess I should say in our coop!

And here she is, isn’t she adorable! The black hen next to her, is her “mama chicken” although she didn’t come from one of Mama Chickens eggs because they are not fertile since we don’t have a rooster. My neighbor donated a few eggs and this sweet […]

One of the cochin hens, and Thelma one of our banties. Believe it or not, they both laid eggs in there today! This is not the first time I’ve seen Thelma in there with a large hen. I think she gets a little impatient with them and pushes her way in there! The first time […]

The chicks are getting big! And so much fun, we were just saying last night how we are so glad we have them. I wasn’t planning on having chicks in our house this winter but yet here they are and the kids love them. As you can see from the box, we built them something […]

My sis was wanting to see pictures of the nest boxes that I built the chickens this past week with my new saw and drill :) Here they are, along with the new ramps we made for them going up to the roost as well as the new boxes. Hoping this will help create less […]

I bought the older kids each a baby chick for Valentine’s day. They are all pretty excited about them, and they are really cute! They are all aracaunas, so we will have some green eggs in a few months.
Holding our baby chicks from Chris and Jenni on Vimeo.
Valentine’s Day Chicks from Chris and Jenni on […]

Did anyone notice the new chickens in our flickr pictures? I put them up a few days ago but haven’t had a chance to say anything about them yet. We’ve been selling eggs to some families at church and decided that we could use a few more eggs. We found these hens (there are four, […]

Fare well Snoopy! from Christian Burns on Vimeo.
We are going to miss you Snoopy, isn’t it funny how you can feel so emotional about a chicken? We decided last week that we needed to find a new home for Snoopy as he has demonstrated aggressive behavior towards the kids, especially Eamon and Guenna. So I […]

Well, I was totally surprised this morning when Guenna and I went out to the chicken coop to do our chores, feed and water the chickens and check the eggs. There were 10 eggs to collect! 8 large and two banty eggs! Wow, that’s a lot of eggs, I was thinking we wouldn’t start getting […]

We had a fun day today. We were promised some new chickens off of freecycle, and the kids and I went to go pick them up. The farm was neat, they raise goats and they had tons of them. On the way to get the chickens we went through the baby goat barn where they […]

No, I’m not pregnant. But our chickens have been busy :) You’ll have to go over to my blog, The Joy of Homemaking to see what they’ve been up to…

Well, I think Cait must have wished for teeth for Christmas, she got at least one of her wishes today, her very first tooth! She grabbed ahold of my finger this morning and I was very surprised to feel a tooth in there, she has not had an off moment the whole time she was […]

Today was kind of exciting, we got two new chickens. Meet Gladys (the mama) and Themla (her baby). Gladys is the one in the front and Thelma is the one in the back. We got them from a lady who offered them on freecycle. We are excited to have a couple of banty hens, aren’t […]

Today we built a roost for the chickens, inside the new coop. Here I brought Snoopy in to have her check it out, I think they are going to like it but it will take them a few days to get used to it. I have the coop done enough that they can use it. […]