City Girl in the Country

So I bought myself a new camera at the first of the year. Since my willing victims are the dogs and cats, you will be inundated with a ton o...

Still the worst blogger ever.  It has been another year.  Darn it.  Let's try again... So hatching season has begun again.  I am runni...

I am officially the worst blogger ever.  Nope.  It's true.  It has been over a year since I have written anything.  Sigh.  I'm so ba...

I have a new rooster in my ameraucana pen. This is his first real hatch. His fertility rates weren't that great, but he definitely made ...

Fagin has decided that Lucy is his dog. He snuggles up with her almost every night. Lucy is still a little wary of cat affection (they are n...

I have been really bad about updating baby pictures of this lot. They are growing like weeds and looking really mangy! They are two weeks ol...

The babies are a week old! They are all eating and drinking and pooping like crazy. Little wing feathers have started to pop out and everyon...

The five babies are out of the incubator and into the brooder. The red is from a heat lamp overhead. The heat keeps their body temps up and ...

So the hatch got started with a pip on Wednesday morning. Nothing happened for most of Thursday, but there was a flurry of activity Thursday...

We have a pip! One of the BBS eggs has a tiny little pip. Technically they aren't supposed to start until tomorrow, but apparently this ...

Today is day 18 and that means LOCKDOWN!! YAY!! I candled the eggs one last time last night. I could see little heads moving around and toes...

Well, life got busy and I have been bad about updating our progress. Truthfully, from the outside it doesn't look like much is going on....

I don't usually start hatching until March. My girls are all on strike right now, so I don't have a ready supply of hatching eggs. P...

Everybody was kung fu fighting... Those birds were fast as lightning... In fact it was a little bit frightning But they fought with expert t...

It has been a while since I posted random pet pictures. I know it has left you sad and forlorn. Never fear though! Gratuitous pet pictures a...

The chickens are all enjoying the cooler temperatures and time out in the yard. This is the bulk of the ameraucana pen. At the moment I have...

This has been the summer of freaky deaky chickens around here. Somehow I have ended up hatching out a herd of mutts. Oh well. They ARE awful...