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We have a few clutches for sale each year. We usually have both smooth and frizzle varieties and once in a while we have a silkie or two. To see our current

🐥Egg Tooth🐥 Did you know that as chicks form in the shell they create a special extra piece on the end of their beak called an egg tooth? This day old Ayam Cemani chick is modeling it perfectly. The egg tooth helps them in the long journey out of the egg and falls off naturally

Six ways to obtain baby chicks for your backyard flock!

Meet the newly hatched chicks that are taking over our urban art farm!

I just got my day old Silkie Chickens today!! I put them in a bucket in my bathroom with self feeder/water and a heat lamp!

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Are Silkies bantams or standard fowl? How many types and sizes are…

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Ground Up Alive I don’t know if enough people are aware of Factory Farming practice; I am not typically one to preach but we must stop this atrocity. The article above describes what a lot of…

Hey my friends! I hope you all had a marvelous Mother’s Day! My sweet family got me these gorgeous Lollipop Gerber Daisies for Mother’s Day 🙂 I wanted to show you a few things growing around our garden… Strawberries! Pink Opal Innocence Larkspur Lavender And baby chicks!! They are the sweetest little things 🙂 Have …

History Silkies are a unique breed of chicken, thought to have originated in China or Southeast Asia. The first recorded history of Silkies occurs in Marco Polo’s writings about his travels to Asia in the 13th century, in which he describes chickens with fur-like plumage black skin. Silkies were admitted into the Standard of Perfection […]

Somebody ... slap a pinafore on me and grab me a bonnet! I'm one step closer to becoming Laura Ingalls. I own backyard chickens! I get all the fun and none of the Nelly Olsen.

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This is a mean little chicken!

My dear husband, Jim, has agreed to build me a chicken coop for my birthday; which is coming up very soon on April 12. Meanwhile, I have been gathering information about chickens so I can start off running instead of making some stupid mistakes with my first flock of sweet little chickens. This blog will be lots of chicken information amassed over several weeks. I have also ordered the pictured book for reference: An inspiringly clean chicken coop Here at Sunset, we solve the problem of the…

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Since it's spring time and many of us will be getting new chickens we felt like it was time for a chicken 101. First off, let's talk about chickens. Even though the idea of getting fresh eggs from your backyard every morning sounds great, you may have a few concerns about keeping them. I have wanted to have a farm for as long as I can remember but when it hit me that I might be able to keep them in my own postage stamp lot I had a lot of questions. I'm going to address them below: First off…