Raising Chickens: Happy Easter from our Easter Eggers!

Our First Easter - 2014

The hens are doing great. Here you can see four of our Easter Eggers (Spider, Helen, Seraphina and Ayden) and one Buff Orpington.

We put up a board for them to perch on and hid tons of fun treats for them to try out. We also found that the Easter Bunny had left us some surprises! Not only did our Easter Egg hunt reach all the way to the barn but we also found some new friends!

BUNNIES!!

We got two male Flemish Giants to room with our chickens. They are super sweet and Caleb has named them "Alhe" and "Rombi". They are very friendly and curious. They follow around our hens and sniff them while the hens run away! Then when the bunnies aren't looking the hens creep up to investigate. Too cute! Talk about a happy Easter.

Baby Wyandottes

The babies are doing great. We haven't noticed any poopy butt. They are getting some real feathers in now. We took one of the chicks out to explore and capture some adorable Easter photos.

Puppies

Baird and Nemo are my two Labradors. They have decided that they are part of the hen care routine. They follow us down to the barn and watch everything we do. Baird likes to hang back and keep guard. He is a little nervous about the chickens. Nemo is more hands in - or paws in I guess. He likes to help round up the hens and check that each hen is still in fact a hen. We will see how they get a long with the bunnies!