Thursday, April 14, 2016

Five Minute Friday- Easy- Oh My Chickens

Here comes another Five Minute Friday. The word is "easy".

So recently my husband and I got chickens. I thought it was going to be easy to take care of them. Boy was I wrong!

 
The first night we had them one of the chicks seemed like a loner and lethargic, and it didn't seem right. I soon found out there is a sickness called Pasty Butt. Google it to find out what it is : ) I am glad I caught it because she was at the worst stages of it.

Then we started to get one that was real big compare to the other ones. We thought she was an rooster because of her aggression.

Anyone who has had chickens before know that they don't stay in their cute and fuzzy stage long. They got huge really fast and stink the whole area of the house. We have ours in the warmest part of the house near the pellet stove which is in the middle of the house.

The past two days my husband and I have been building the coop for them. We did not realize that there was such a specific wire you needed to get to build it. We finished it. It is a very nice coop but isn't winterize for the cold nights we still have. But the days are warmer. So today we took them out to the coop and they seem to like it but at the end of the day we had to bring them back in to the box. I separate the 5 of them into two boxes but that didn't seem to help because after putting my little one to bed, I come downstairs and one of them has been pecked. It looks sad. I did the best I could to give it first aid and separated it from the others. She is not happy with me because she kept trying to fly out.

But after all of this even though I have found out that it isn't easy to keep chickens, I am thankful for the lessons I have learned which will make things easier as I go.

10 comments :

  1. Sounds like you've learned some lessons. I don't have chickens but I have friends who do. They tell me how it isn't easy. But they are glad that they got their chickens. Nice to meet you! I'm visiting from FMF where we are neighbors.

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  2. Oh, chickens aren't easy are they? Patience, patience, patience! Helen {A FMF friend visiting from http://www.iwillbloom.wordpress.com}

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  3. Oh, Kristina! No. Not easy. But they will teach you about a lot more than poultry. Trust me on this.

    #1 at FMF this week.

    http://blessed-are-the-pure-of-heart.blogspot.com/2016/04/your-dying-spouse-143-only-easy-day-fmf.html

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  4. Good to meet you, Kristina! I hope your little chicken buddy is doing better today. I admire you for being willing to take on such a big task!

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    1. Thank you. I enjoy being mother hen to the hurt chicken. I just get wrapped up into it probably too much. Lol thanks for stopping by

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  5. When I was a kid, we visited an aunt and uncle who lived in Missouri and raised chickens. They had a huge aluminum building with hundreds of chickens and you could smell it before you walked inside. I hope you're laughing at some of your experiences as you go. It's usually funnier in hindsight ;) I'm not a bird person, but I agree with what Andrew said, they'll teach you more than about poultry. Good luck with it all!

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    1. Well said. There has been a lot of times where we would find pleasure in them. I guess when I wrote this one the chickens as I mentioned got pecked and that got me all sad. I bet I could rewrite this in all the easy fun times we have had with them too. Lol I am a person who gets wrapped up in things pretty quickly. Thanks for dropping by

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  6. My family raised fryer chickens one year. They were awful and stinky and a lot of work. Never again.

    Definitely a memorable experience though!

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    1. Exactly! I only had 5 minutes but I could have went into the whole thought of being so motherly with them and enjoying it. Or how sometimes I would just watch them and see their mannerisms and how God made them exactly like that. Those are the good times

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  7. Oh, my, it sounds like a challenge and definitely not EASY. :) You will make it through this, and it will be worth it! God bless you.

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