I’ve been thinking a lot about how to structure this chicken series. I’m hoping that it will be useful to aspiring keepers so I’m working on organizing my posts in a way that will be most helpful. That said, I’m just going to start at the beginning of our journey…
Here’s day one, March 31, 2007, twenty minutes after our first chickens arrived..
Knowing that we had been thinking about getting chickens, our friend Chip brought these three Silver Laced Wyandottes to us. A friend had ordered a shipment of fifteen or twenty and needed to re-home a few.
There was some excitement around here that day!
Because they were a bit of a surprise and we weren’t really prepared we had a wooden box for them to live in. But fear not, we quickly made a nice warm brooder using an aquarium.
On the kitchen counter of course…
We named them Sunny, Chip and Brady and they all lived for many years. We just lost Chip (the chicken, not our friend) a few months ago.
We were having fun with our new passion!. I remember the kids spending a lot of time up on that chair talking to the girls.
But we had so so much to learn, and we did, one step at a time..
You can too!
Enjoy Everything!
Michele
The Salem Garden 
There is nothing like baby chicks to say ‘SPRING.’ We’ve had two sets and it’s a blast each time. We also have Silver Laced Wyandottes – those girls are hardy which is a good thing up in our parts of the country. 🙂
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They are spring to me too… we’re hoping to add five or six in the next few weeks. We’ve found the wyandottes to be very hardy too, and your right, that is a good thing around here!!
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I’m really enjoying your chicken posts. Look forward to more.
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Thank you! I’m working on more, stay tuned!
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