Sunday, June 26, 2011

Big Chickens

Well we decided that we would do the bigger chickens instead of the smaller chicks!  The bigger chickens are doing well and we usually have to fill their water every day.  We probably have 5 male chickens that we have kept. Again, my sister Kimber took pictures for us!  Thanks Kimber!!



This is the hole coop.  The white net looking thing around the coop (if you can see it!) is electric poultry fence from Premier 1.  Dad has 4 strands of wire around the whole field.


 This is behind the egg nests. This is supposed to be a roosting place so they can have somewhere to roost at night even the younger chickens don't have exactly the idea to roost there yet while the older chickens know where to roost!!

Now we have 2 Buff Orpington roosters and 3 frizzles (that is what everybody calls them in our family, we don't exactly know what type they are!) .  This is one of the Orpingtons guys!

The 2 white and black chickens are 2 "frizzles"!

Eating....
One of dads older chickens.
Chickens underneath the roosts'.
Eggs from Dad's 12 older chickens that are laying.

Seth was with Kimber as she was taking pictures. Caleb was working with Daddy that day!

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Moving chicks to their new home

Well we're glad that we could post again!  We moved the chickens into their new home a couple of days ago!!  So as most of y'all know we had the 95 chickens in the coop closest to our house, and we kept most of them in the coop that morning so it would be easier to get the chickens when we were ready to transfer them (We close the hatch at night and then open the hatch in the morning) ! 



We put the chickens in our dad's trailer with a tarp on top.

We had a tub that we put the chickens in and then we put it on our wagon and wheeled it over to the trailer!

The placing of the tub.


The chickens in the trailer.

The white thing that looks like a a green house (which it is!) we built with a friend of ours last year for the chickens.



This is the inside of the chicken coop.  The big white thing in the middle of the coop (there is another one behind it) is a nesting box for them to lay their eggs in. (Dad had around 13 older chickens that have been in the coop for a while and we are getting around 10 eggs a day!) 

Daddy and I (Caleb) are in the front of the trailer trying to get the chickens out.

And the Marines came down to the beach.......


Some of them inspecting their new home.


Caleb coming out of the trailer.

Inspecting for insectoids.




Caleb likes the tails of these chickens and he calls them "Indian feathers"!


We had a 30 gallon galvanized can that was filled with ash (from are Central broiler) and Dad emptied it and we put around 4 bags of feed in so we could use it as a container to hold the food and it would be easier for us to get the feed and not feed the field mice.
Getting the bags of feed.

Pouring the feed in.

One of Dad's Buff Orpington hen sittin' and relaxin' !

We hope y'all had a good time lookin' it the pics of the chickens!  Sorry for posting late!
Till next time, God Bless!
Caleb and Seth Wassenberg
Co-owner of SRR Egg Factory


Monday, June 6, 2011

Moving chickens.

We did not post last week because there was nothing new to post about!!  Since we didn't have anything to post about we were going to post when we moved the 93 chickens with the 20 older chickens in our field!
Thank you for waiting!
Till next time, 
God Bless!
Caleb and Seth Wassenberg
Co-owners of SRR Egg Factory