The hardest part of letting my hens raise bantam chicks is we can’t keep them all, especially males. Penguin just recently decided she was done being mommy for her brood of chicks. Since I still have not gotten up the courage to process a rooster, it was time to rehome the extras we can’t keep in our little coop. They were 9 weeks old. This little fellow in the above picture went to a new home today, along with a…
A local Long Beach watering hole, Joe Jost’s, claims to have sold 6,000,000 Spicy Pickled eggs since 1934. My husband has eaten his fair share of that number. He loves to cook and this was the first thing he said he was making when we got chickens. Since 2009 we have been making these at home. We like spicy pickled eggs so much, that rather than immediately start eating the Bantams’ eggs when they started laying, I set the eggs…
The chicks are growing very quickly. I still only can tell that there are two cockerels for sure due to their very slow feathering and slightly larger and pinker combs. Statistically there should be more males. There are two others that just this week got a tiny bit of pink in their combs, but the combs are still mostly yellow. We have 13 chicks, and I doubt we could be so lucky as to get 11 pullets. Even though they…