Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Category: chickens

  • Enjoying

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/chickens/chickens01042008?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/chickens/chickens01042008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The chickens enjoying the warm sun and dry ground on the cement pad. They are really laying now. We are getting over a dozen eggs a day. Now to try to figure out what to do with all the eggs.…

  • Shelter

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/chickens/shelter11282007?full=1'><img width="640" height="480" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/chickens/shelter11282007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Some of My Darling Wife's chickens huddled up against a building on a cold day. The sun really reflects off this building so when it is cold the chickens really like to group up here. Taken 11/28/2007.</center>

  • Out And About

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/chickens/chicks08122007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/chickens/chicks08122007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The new chickens are really starting to get out and about now. We moved them over to the regular coop and they are integrating with the older ones. The survival rate of this bunch was a little lower than we…

  • Strange Looking

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/chickens/strange08012007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/chickens/strange08012007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>This is one weird looking chicken My Darling Wife got with this batch. The company she gets them from usually throws in one free exotic chicken with every order and this one must be it. I think it is the…

  • Herding

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/chickens/herd06252007?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/chickens/herd06252007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The new chickens are sure growing fast. They are wandering all over the place. Lucky keeps trying to herd them around. Where he is trying to take them is beyond me, but he keeps trying. Taken 6/25/2007.</center>

  • Two Weeks Old

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/chickens/chicks05212007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/chickens/chicks05212007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The new chicks at two weeks old. My Darling Wife says they are at the ugly stage. Far be it from me to argue with her. Taken 5/21/2007.</center>

  • Replacements

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/chickens/replacments05072007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/chickens/replacments05072007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>My Darling Wife's new laying chicks came in yesterday. What the hatchery calls a brown egg layer mix so who knows what breeds there are in it. I think the older chickens sensed their replacements had arrived. They laid more…

  • Chickens

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/chickens/chickenslp01032007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/chickens/chickenslp01032007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>A picture my youngest daughter took the other day of the chickens. I always like to show off her pictures when she deigns to take some. Taken 1/3/2007.</center>

  • Chickens

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/chickens/chickens08142006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/chickens/chickens08142006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Nothing special here, just a picture of some of My Darling Wife's chickens. Taken 8/14/2006. </center>

  • Heat