Hi! Welcome to my blog! My name is Jane (PlainJane) and I am the blessed and happy wife to Jeff and doubly blessed mama of two perfectly wonderful daughters. Please join me as I share our Lifestyle of Learning through Christian homeschooling and homesteading on our little hobby farm with our prairie girls.
Bookworm is our dd14/9th grader.
Our perfectionist and over-achiever. She loves reading, playing violin, her Paint horse, Annie, being a farm girl, and History re-entacting.
Ladybug
is our dd11/6th grader.
Our "girls just want to have fun" girl. She loves to play and has a great sense of humor, but also likes reading, music, her Quarter Horse, Kitty, and History re-enactment.
We are finished reading
the Moody books
By Sarah Maxwell
and HIGHLY recommend them
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~ I am a part of... ~
he said to them, "Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to obey carefully all the words of this law. They are not just idle words for you -- THEY ARE YOUR LIFE. By them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess." Deuteronomy 32:46-47
Jun. 11, 2008~ Baby Chick!!! ~
Excitement abounds at our farm today! Our little banty, Brownie, has a fluffy yellow chick under her this morning!!! Our first hatchling! (Usually we just order day-old chicks).
I think Brownie will be surprised when the chick grows to be bigger than she is, since it's not from one of her eggs - but she looks happy just the same. Trying to tell whether it's a pullet or cockerel is very difficult when they are young - there are experts for that kind on thing. We will just wait until it gets older - which may require a name change. I hope it's not a rooster though, we have plenty of them. I wish Brownie had had more eggs under her, but she didn't. I hope it won't be too lonesome. We do have another hen setting right now and is as ornery as can be - we didn't time her, but she probably has one or more week(s) to go.
Do you have more than one rooster? If so how do you keep them from fighting? Do they coexist together without killing one another?
I ask because we have one rooster now, but we are raising day olds in a separate pen and I'm not sure if the two flocks will be able to mingle with more than one rooster. Our neighbor said hers were fine together for a bit, but one day they came out to a blood bath. I surely don't want that to happen.
Hello from Knoxville Twin! What a cutie the little chick is. Our friends raise chickens (and other things) and it always delights the girls to hold the little fluffs!
Jane,
Did I miss a blog on this? We have chickens, we expect eggs at some point, but I thought they were for making scrambled eggs, not getting real chickens. I should write the book, Chickens For Dummies, that is, after you explain this to me.
:)
Your very ignorant chicken friend,
Antoinette
