Category Archives: baby chickens

Broody Hen

Posted on April 6, 2012 by jkmcintyre
[caption id="attachment_1505" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Calamity Jane, our Dark Brahma, went broody in February"][/caption]

My young hen Calamity Jane sits in the nest box. She has done very little else for weeks now. She spends the day in there when the other chickens are out having dirt baths and fighting over the compost pile. She spends the night in there when the other chickens are sleeping on the roost. She makes distraught cluck-cluck-cluck sounds when we force her off the nest. There is no doubt about it – she is broody… Continue reading →

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Pullet Eggs

Posted on August 29, 2011 by jkmcintyre

One of our new chickens, The White Queen, has started laying (4.5 mo old SLW). It began a few days prior with a submissive squat, followed by frantic searching for ‘The Safe Place’.  Mostly this involved poking about the yard … Continue reading →

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Rooster

Posted on July 18, 2011 by jkmcintyre

Every day the past few weeks, I would consider Roo. ‘Could this possibly be a hen?’ So pretty, with the bright red feathers.  Huge feet. Long amber feathers grew on his neck (called hackles, see diagram below), and the feathers … Continue reading →

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Baby Chickens now 4 Months

Posted on July 14, 2011 by jkmcintyre

At four months, our babies look like small versions of their adult selves. [Watch their progress here and here.] Calamity Jane, the Dark Brahma, is still the runt, but she is big on personality.  She is bold and assertive with … Continue reading →

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