Welcome to our farm page! We love fresh eggs and love animals, so we decided to raise chickens for eggs! What started as 10 chickens in 2017 will be roughly 100 chickens in 2024! We pamper our chickens to keep them happy and healthy. If you are in the Camano Island area and you are welcome to come see the chickens and buy eggs if we have them!
Despite the somewhat dark and cold weather, the girls continue to lay eggs! Demand has been high – maybe holiday baking has begun? I have added a new “automation” for the chickens – the scratchnado! I have created automated scratch feeders that distribute feed for the girls to scratch at 4 times a day. Video of one of the early feedings in action (the girls startle when the feed starts flying, but then realize it is for them and swarm).
We had quite an extended wind storm over the past 2 days, but it did not seem to phase the chickens. They went about their normal activities, including more work on “pumpkin carving”. Egg production was slightly lower, but within normal range (47 eggs) yesterday. This morning we had a very unusual visiter ringing the coop doorbell. I knew our eggs were popular, but did not expect this visitor at the doorbell!
Well, Fall is certainly here! MJ was able to get a number of pumpkins for free from QFC and so the flock is feasting on pumpkin! I broke up all but 1 of the pumpkins, and decided to let the girls “carve” the last pumpkin. I scratched a face on the pumpkin with a pocket knife to see if the chickens would take the hint. Photos and videos show their work over time!
Power is out for us Monday morning, but we have good backup resources and so far, all is good!
They continue to lay eggs , even though we have some broody hens and some moulting going on.
