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 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!
Good news, not sure news! We have added some new chicks – 10 so far and another 10 in the near future. The first batch we brought home today are 5 Midnight Majesty Marans and 5 Easter Eggers. The Marans lay dark chocolate brown eggs and the Easter Eggers lay blue, green, or brown eggs (each hen only lays 1 color, but you don’t know what color until the first egg). These are pullets, which is a fancy way of the breeder saying they are 90% confident these are hens. The next 10 will also be split between Marans and some type of Easter Egger breed.
These chicks are only a few days old, so it will be likely 5 months before they start laying eggs.
The “not sure” news – our adult hens have either decided to initiate a work slowdown or a vacation or both – egg production has dropped suddenly. This can happen seasonally, it can happen due to changes, health reasons, or hens just being hens. We haven’t noticed any health issues, so we are hoping it will correct soon. Until it does, we may need to reduce the eggs available for people getting eggs on regular basis. We’ll give you a heads up a few days ahead if we need to change the day of your eggs or the amount to expect.
These chicks are only a few days old, so it will be likely 5 months before they start laying eggs.
The “not sure” news – our adult hens have either decided to initiate a work slowdown or a vacation or both – egg production has dropped suddenly. This can happen seasonally, it can happen due to changes, health reasons, or hens just being hens. We haven’t noticed any health issues, so we are hoping it will correct soon. Until it does, we may need to reduce the eggs available for people getting eggs on regular basis. We’ll give you a heads up a few days ahead if we need to change the day of your eggs or the amount to expect.
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