Rachel Prickett, co-owner of Provenance Farm along with her husband Keith, is a young, newish farmer, but what she lacks in experience, she makes up for in her steadfast care for her animals and the sweat equity she’s invested in the farm. For the last three years, the Pricketts have been raising thousands of pastured [...]
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We’ve been having some egg trouble recently. I’m hoping one of the chicken whisperers that reads this will have some answers. Here’s what’s going on… Every day, Henry or I go out to collect some beautiful brown eggs. Those eggs may or may not get washed right away. They may or may not find a [...]
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I’ve had a couple inquiries/comments about our rooster lately. Yes, his name is Toilet, and yeah, we think Toilet is a pretty awesome name for a rooster, too. Levi named him almost two years ago. I’m not entirely sure where our name-gifted son came up with “Toilet”, but we approved. Toilet is a ‘black copper [...]
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Chico Chicken hatched chicks! A lot of them. I *think* there are ten, but they’re really hard to count because they look alike and move around in a little herd. The eggs started peeping audibly on Thursday, and the first chick hatched on Friday. The situation was somewhat unknown for a while because Chico [...]
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This is our hen Chico Chicken. She’s sitting on 15 eggs that are due to hatch soon. When we first got chickens a few years back, we put in a joint order along with my mom at our local feed store for ‘australorp’ chicks. Because we didn’t have power to run a heat lamp or [...]
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Sometimes I wonder if homegrown (home-laid?) eggs are like snowflakes, no two the same. These eggs are from red sex-linked or black sex-linked hens crossed with a black copper marans rooster. They’re probably the prettiest chicken eggs I’ve ever seen. We just moved our laying chickens out of the patch of timber bamboo that was [...]
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Henry went to a chicken swap (more like a sale) at the county fairgrounds the other day and brought home 12 roosters. Apparently the vendor drove with her chickens all the way from Eastern Oregon and didn’t want to have to haul them home with nothing to show for it, so 12 roosters set us [...]
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Raising chickens really is the best thing ever. Last fall, we had a neighboring 4-H student hatch out eggs from our red and black sex linked hens (known for good egg production) crossed with a black copper marans rooster (know for dark brown eggs), and we got 26 chicks. The young chickens as well as [...]
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