Yesterday two Icelandic chicks hatched. One is black and the other white. Icelandics chickens are a landrace fowl and they can have very different colors of feathers and legs. Some are crested, others are not. Please forgive the blurry ...
The Family Dustbath
Icelandic Supermom Lukka was out with her brood today. She is raising two Cuckoo Marans, and three Brabanter chicks, all five weeks old. Lukka is what I like to call a super-broody, a chicken that lives to hatch and raise baby chicks. I cannot tell ...
Pavlovskaja Chicks
On Saturday we hatched out two more Pavlovskaja chicks, bringing our total to four. This morning I moved the new chicks in with the ten-day-old chicks in the brooder house. The move went well and all four chicks are getting along just fine. Our ...
Moving Day
The chicks are five days old, so it was time to move them from the little brooder in the basement to the big brooder in the Little Yellow House. The former occupants have long been gone and the brooder cleaned and ready to go. The little ones, five ...
Animal Sightings
Sometimes when you have animals, you see things you can't un-see. We are about to experience our first emu mating season here at the Buck 'n Run Ranch. I am afraid we are going to see things that we really wish we hadn't seen. Until then, there's ...
Wordless Wednesday
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Guess the Breed Contest – $50 Prize!
The contest has ended! The winner correctly identified four of the five chicken breeds. The breeds are Dark Cornish, White Plymouth Rock, Buff Brahma, Dominique, and Cuckoo Marans. Thanks to everyone who took the challenge and congratulations to the ...
Book Give-a-way! Signed Copies of “Chickens in the Road”
Congratulations to the 4 winners of Chickens in the Road. Thank you to all who participated and we look forward to seeing you at the next giveaway. Michael and Mary O'Brien Farm blogger Suzanne McMinn from Chickens in the Road just ...
Martha Stewart, the chicken.
On October 4, 2008 we traveled with our granddaughters to CETA Foundation Ranch in Vacaville, CA to pick out our first chickens. Emily picked a Naked Neck and named her Judge Judy. Michael and I picked chickens, named them Nancy Grace and Paula Deen. ...
Monster N-Tune Headphones & Chance to Win!
This post is brought to you by Monster Headphones and BlogHer. Imagine my excitement when I opened a box from Monster to find a set of N-TUNE candy tangerine orange headphones. I was excited to be a part of the Monster headphone campaign as I ...
Cute Chicks and Curled Toes (Update)
We just finished the first round of a staggered hatch a couple of days ago. Three black copper Marans chicks hatched along with four Icelandics. As usual, the Icelandics are running around, eating and drinking, while the Marans (from now on ...
Update on the Icelandic Juveniles
The Icelandic chicks are about three months old now. Because Icelandic's are a landrace fowl, there is no standard color, pattern, or comb. You just never know what you'll get. I have nine beautiful chicks, unfortunately five are boys. I will have to ...
Emu Mayhem
A little back story: Chica has been on the outs with the other three emus since we moved here almost a year ago. For whatever reason, she started displaying mating behavior quite early. That set her apart from the others and resulted in her being ...
Shipped Egg Mayhem (Graphic Pics)
I was excited this morning to be receiving a box of shipped hatching eggs. My postal carrier delivered the box and I anxiously opened it, only to be horrified by what I saw. These were the eggs I received. I'll start with the obvious problem. Some ...
Broodies and Babies
We went outside tonight to find the source of a lot of loud peeping. It was the Icelandic juveniles running amok. My old Welsummer girl, Chatty Cathy was trying to herd them into the coop for the night. I sent her back to the coop and I took ...
The adoption process…as it applies to chicks.
Some hens make horrible broodies but great Moms, meaning they can't hatch an egg to save their life, but the can sure love one from the incubator. This girl is a perfect example. She has been broody about three times this summer and has yet to hatch ...
Time Lapse Chick Hatching Video!
Last night we had eggs hatching. I am addicted to the time lapse camera I bought recently, so I put it in the incubator with the chicken eggs. A complete hatch from pip to out of the shell was captured. If you are unfamiliar with the process of ...
Icelandic Chicks
We now have Icelandic chickens from three lines of imports from Iceland. Isi and Lukka are still going strong, but I felt the need to add some new blood. We now have nine chicks, two that are 10 weeks old and seven that are 8 weeks old. Those are ...
The need, the need for speed.
This website has been out of my control since Saturday morning. Four whole days. No funny animal posts, no recipes, no photos, no nothing. We were unhappy with the speed of this site so we decided to upgrade to a faster service. We hit the button to ...
Night Falls
A tech report on my favorite morning news show piqued my interest in a small time-lapse camera made by Brinno. The more I researched, the more I wanted one. So I bought one. It arrived a couple of days ago and we have played with it a bit. The first ...