Category: The Birds & the Bees

Posts about the chickens, the bees, the garden, and things around the house. This is how we do it.

Chickens and Candy Eggs

On By Daphne Cybele Van SchaickIn The Birds & the Bees9 Comments
3-plus week old barred rock hens inside indoor brooder
3-plus week old barred rock hens. I think the one on the right is Minerva or Polly… but suggestions are welcome!

The barred rock chicks have passed the three-week mark.  I write these posts on the far side of each week (which is to say, we are living and writing in the fourth week, having survived the third…). Continue reading “Chickens and Candy Eggs” →

Blueberry Pancakes and Week 2 of Chickens in the House

On By Daphne Cybele Van SchaickIn The Birds & the Bees11 Comments

Today is Sunday, and a two blueberry pancake and four cups of coffee morning.  I like the colors of this time of year in Vermont:  the fields pale yellow-gold of grass now out from underneath the snow, the dark brown-gray of wet earth, the glimmer of puddles reflecting cloudy luminous skies, tree branches still stark and bare.

Beaky Blinders - raising chickens in an indoor brooder, inside the house
The Beaky Blinders Gang – these two-week old chickens are very curious about the camera.

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