We have lots of scheduled pick ups now, and the sign is not out often. For best availability, call or message ahead to get eggs!
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 turned into over 100 chickens in 2025! 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!
The 2026 “new edition” have matured! The girls are roughly 18 weeks old and a few of the girls have started laying eggs with the rest likely joining soon. One of the group turned out to be a rooster, and he (Ed) has joined the rest of the flock. We wanted to keep the new group without a rooster.
In order to make sure the new group did not get bored, we added some “tunnels” that let the girls forage in a protected environment. We also added hanging treat baskets that have sunflower hearts or worms in them.
The timing of the new eggs is good – our “average egg production” has been down for the last few weeks due to some broody hens, some moulting hens, and the passing of a few older hens. We have been trying to match requests for eggs to the actual production of eggs, sometimes having to shift pickup days in order to get everyone fresh eggs as much as possible.
The new eggs from girls are too small right now to count, but it won’t be too long before our production numbers catch up with the increased demand this summer.
The brown egg is the first egg from this group – the blue egg is the second!
In order to make sure the new group did not get bored, we added some “tunnels” that let the girls forage in a protected environment. We also added hanging treat baskets that have sunflower hearts or worms in them.
The timing of the new eggs is good – our “average egg production” has been down for the last few weeks due to some broody hens, some moulting hens, and the passing of a few older hens. We have been trying to match requests for eggs to the actual production of eggs, sometimes having to shift pickup days in order to get everyone fresh eggs as much as possible.
The new eggs from girls are too small right now to count, but it won’t be too long before our production numbers catch up with the increased demand this summer.
The brown egg is the first egg from this group – the blue egg is the second!
The 2026 batch of chicks (26 of them!) are a little over 7 weeks old – I realized I last did a post about a month ago and things have been very eventful over the past month! I finished a new coop and spent the last few days completing the fencing around the new coop area. The chicks are not tiny any more and were getting very crowded in the 5 foot round stock tank. The new coop is 16 by 4, almost 3 times the square footage but also complete with roosting bars, a nesting box area (for future use), sides that drop open for easy cleaning, and an automatic door with a ramp to make it easy for them to enter and exit.
The big move happened last night – after dark, I turned off the lights in their area and either 1 or 2 at a time, put them in a large dog carrier on a cart.
I rolled the cart out to the new area, then, most 1 at a time, put them inside their new coop in the dark. Chickens are easiest to pick up and move in the dark, because they really can’t see well and tend to not freak out as much because they can’t see you reaching for them.
They spent the night in the new coop, then the automatic door opened early this morning. It was darker and rainy, so I was not surprised to see all of them still in the coop this morning, so I used leveraged their love of corn and sunflower chips to lure them to the door with a trail of snacks. Most, if not all made it out of the coop today and began exploring their new area. The adults on the other side of their area were very curious if not jealous. Tomorrow might be a “mandatory” field trip out of the coop for everyone, just to make sure they find their food and water outside the coop. I’ve got many photos and videos to share!
We will now call these the “interns” or the “ladies in waiting” or maybe something else! It will be at least 2 to 3 months before we should start seeing any egg laying activity.
In case you were wondering, the new chickens are:
7 Midnight Majestic Marans (lay dark brown eggs)
2 Barred Rock (lay tan eggs)
5 Easter Eggers (lay either tan, blue, pink, or green eggs)
1 Rhode Island Red (lay tan eggs)
11 Americana – (lay either tan, blue, pink, or green eggs)
The big move happened last night – after dark, I turned off the lights in their area and either 1 or 2 at a time, put them in a large dog carrier on a cart.
I rolled the cart out to the new area, then, most 1 at a time, put them inside their new coop in the dark. Chickens are easiest to pick up and move in the dark, because they really can’t see well and tend to not freak out as much because they can’t see you reaching for them.
They spent the night in the new coop, then the automatic door opened early this morning. It was darker and rainy, so I was not surprised to see all of them still in the coop this morning, so I used leveraged their love of corn and sunflower chips to lure them to the door with a trail of snacks. Most, if not all made it out of the coop today and began exploring their new area. The adults on the other side of their area were very curious if not jealous. Tomorrow might be a “mandatory” field trip out of the coop for everyone, just to make sure they find their food and water outside the coop. I’ve got many photos and videos to share!
We will now call these the “interns” or the “ladies in waiting” or maybe something else! It will be at least 2 to 3 months before we should start seeing any egg laying activity.
In case you were wondering, the new chickens are:
7 Midnight Majestic Marans (lay dark brown eggs)
2 Barred Rock (lay tan eggs)
5 Easter Eggers (lay either tan, blue, pink, or green eggs)
1 Rhode Island Red (lay tan eggs)
11 Americana – (lay either tan, blue, pink, or green eggs)
Our latest “draft” of chicks are now almost 3 weeks old! We ended up getting 4 more chicks for a total of 26 chicks.
It will be another 4 to 5 weeks before they are ready to move outside. We have been taking advantage of the good weather to build a new coop as their new home! When the weather is nice, the girls are getting supervised free range time. I say supervised, but they sort of supervised the start of construction of the new coop. They will have their own space separated (but next to) the rest of the flock until they are large enough to mingle.
It will be another 4 to 5 weeks before they are ready to move outside. We have been taking advantage of the good weather to build a new coop as their new home! When the weather is nice, the girls are getting supervised free range time. I say supervised, but they sort of supervised the start of construction of the new coop. They will have their own space separated (but next to) the rest of the flock until they are large enough to mingle.
We sourced the 2nd set of “reinforcements” this morning, so we added 22 in all. Today we added 10 Americana (a type of Easter Egger) and 2 more Marans! Total cuteness at this age!
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