Lucky Cluckers

We’re nominees for the group hatch-o-holics on Facebook for sure. We’ve recently hatched our third round in the incubator (and have reset round 4 with farm fresh eggs from 3 different farms PLUS ours! Talk about magical mixes emerging from our eggs… Back to the original story that was our…

New theory that Melvin and Marvin are Black Sex Links? The Black Sex-Link is an excellent brown egg layer. It was created from a Barred Rock hen and a Rhode Island Red cockerel. This creates a very versatile bird that is a great egg layer, has the temperament of a…

Part of the fun of a farmyard chick is trying to figure out who the parents are that bring about the chicks characteristics. Here we’ll recap our chicks that hatched and try to match with the parent combo that brought them about. Play along! Aside from DNA testing our best…

or a new addiction! You decide. So, the best Christmas Gift this past year was an incubator! It was gifted to our Mother Clucker Sandi, however, she doesn’t have to be in charge of it just yet. Al – the gifter, has become the egg setter extraordinaire! Our first set…

Our Americana will give you an assortment of colored eggs from turquoise to olive, to light brown. The Americana breed comes from the Araucana and Ameraucana mix and has different color plumage variations. It is because of this genetic combination that our birds are not meant for exhibition. Docile, Friendly…

One of Frick’s adopted chicks was York – and Australorp. Here’s more: Our Americana will give you an assortment of colored eggs from turquoise to olive, to light brown. The Americana breed comes from the Araucana and Ameraucana mix and has different color plumage variations. It i The Australorp is…

We had a hen go broody for several weeks. In order to speed things along with getting her back to “normal” we adopted some chicks from Rural King to get the process going. Here’s Frick and her adopted brood of chicks.

We put a pile of tall grasses into the yard for the chickens to peck around in. Little did we know they would choose that as their favorite spot to lay eggs! Just last night, after not finding any green eggs in the boxes, Sandi went to check other spots…

Esther has some fun faces!

Which chicken laid which egg? Play along with us as we figure it out!

We posted our first egg on instagram on Thursday, May 20th! Since then we’ve gotten almost 2 dozen keepers – and found a bunch of soft shelled/first eggs around the coop and under their roosts. We imagine the first egg is like, whoa, what’s this? Not being sure they just…

Soooo…Henrietta has the crooked leg which we’ve mentioned has not kept her/him down at all~! This past two weeks brought major redness out in his comb/wattles – that, the cock-a-doodle-doo’ing and the mounting of hens for chicken/rooster happy time has confirmed. Indeed. Henrietta is a boy. #2 in the Rooster…

Big bird has changed a bunch lately – her comb and wattles have reddened up, and the comb is spikier and now floppy a bit. We still aren’t certain of her breed. We’ll have to figure out which eggs are hers and that may give us more clues!

Mini Melba – with a much smaller comb and lighter colors! Melba with Mini Melbas and pals!