Spring has Sprung

Spring is in the air! We have one hen setting, and eight new additions to the poultry family- four Black Astralorps and four Silver Laced Wyandottes. The two oldest Astralorps we recieved at a 4-H Farm Day, and the other six were purchased at the Co-op about a week later. The older two are probably several weeks older, and are nearly fully feathered. These guys were living in our bathroom. After about the fourth escape, they were relocated to the outside brooder.

Black Astralorp

Black Astralorp

Silver Laced Wyandotte

Black Astralorp

Silver Laced Wyandotte

Spring Chickens

One of my good chicken-raising friends has decided to sell all of her chickens, and offered us first pick. So we now have two new Cochin hens, a Cochin bantam hen, and a golden Campine. Here they are!

Elizabeth Taylor the Cochin bantam

Chaniqua the golden Campine

Aurora the silver laced Cochin

Belle the golden laced Cochin

This is our Easter egg hunt!

April Fools

We've had some strange weather this year, including snow at the end of March. I'm definitely ready for spring! The daffodils are blooming (which the should have done a month or two ago) and the tulips are beginning to poke up out of the ground.

In January, we got some great snow (great for the slushy, non-sticking snow zone where I live). Here are some pictures of our chickens and ducks enjoying themselves (or maybe not so much) in one of the first snows of the new year!