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Category: Getting Started


  • Checking the coop and finding eggs daily is an awesome routine

    Every morning, some afternoons and every evening; we always go out to the chicken coop to check for new eggs. As of today, 9/11/2025, we have collected exactly 24 eggs from our backyard chickens. As of over just a week ago have stopped buying store bought eggs. The whole routine of feeding, checking on the…

  • Yeah! Our backyard chickens left us a very special gift, “The First Egg”

    On 8/21/2025, one of our hens laid their first egg inside our chicken coop and inside their nesting box. From a baby hatchling to laying this first egg only took four and half months! I’m not sure we should eat this first egg, maybe we can think of something creative to do with this awesome…

  • We designed our first chicken coop, picked a spot and started building

    In early may we finalized our chicken coop design, choose the perfect spot in our backyard and started building our first chicken coop. We designed our coop by using Google SketchUp and we will be posting our design as a downloadable SketchUp and PDF file in a future update. We’ve been busy buying wood, screws…

  • Say Hello to Chick #10

    On 4/21/2025, we picked up our 10th baby chicken from our sons school classroom. Since we only picked up one chicken today, we only needed a pickle barrel filled with some wood chips to transport this one baby chicken home. Only one more egg is left to hatch and then we will have all our…

  • Bringing home the first 9 chicks

    On 4/17/2025, we picked up our first 9 baby chickens from our sons school classroom. All nine chickens had previously hatched in their classroom as part of their project. We brought our chicken box filled with wood chips, loaded up the first 9 baby chickens, and brought them home. When we picked up the chicks,…