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!
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.
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.
It has been a while since the last post! Our girls are still working hard, and have been producing eggs throughout the winter. The flock has lost a few chickens, due to age and normal chicken health issues. Sad news, we Thelmo was one of those chickens.
We have started to let the girls do some property cleanup by giving them supervised free ranging outside of the fenced areas. It is a bit scary because we have a pair of eagles spending lots of time in the top of trees on and near our property.
We have lots of scheduled pick ups now, so the sign is not out often. For best availability, call or message ahead to get eggs!
