Accidental Homesteader

chickens

  • Even More Peeps

    So far Summer has hatched three eggs… although the last one she didn’t sit on them much. It was warm… Read More

  • New Peep

    The time has come! Summer’s eggs (and some others’ eggs) are hatching. She ended up with 12 eggs. One hatched,… Read More

  • Broody Chicken Update

    Last time I reported that Summer was sitting on five eggs. She now has at least nine. We are looking… Read More

  • Coop Dreams

    So in my earlier post, I couldn’t find the book with the plans for our original coop. Our library is… Read More

  • Carry On My Wayward Peep

    So, it was a bit of a goat rodeo getting the peeps from the pen to their brooder, because it… Read More

  • Coop Four

    So we had our three coops, and were working on a fourth for the peeps. Well, we got the fourth… Read More

  • Checking In with the Peeps

    The peeps are having a day in the pen. More room than the brooder, and we aren’t *quite* finished with… Read More

  • Three coop family.

    We currently have three chicken coops. We are going to need a bigger boat. With 20-odd new chicks we were… Read More

  • Chicklet Lineup

    Chicklet Lineup

    Now that the chicklets are about a month old, they’ve passed the most dangerous time. So here we have the… Read More

  • The Best Little Brooder in Kansas

    So with (now) 23 little ones in the small brooder… Read More