We've gotten into birds - they are a fun and fascinating
hobby as well as a source of food 
( eggs and meat). 
(young chickens kind of look like dinosaurs we think!)
Check out our *updated* Peacock
Page for some picutres of our new-born peachicks for 2003!
This is our chicken coop and run. Click here
for pictures of the BIG bird pen. The gray wall behind the
coop and tree is the side of our barn. All of our chickens are
let out to free-range during the day. All of the birds we raised
from chicks have become very well trained to return to the coop
every night. Our old bantams are still wild and try to roost in
the trees even though we clipped their wings! The tree in the
middle of the chicken pen is a Western Hemlock. It is a miracle
that this tree is still alive, since the previous owners of our
place had a donkey who stripped most of the bark off this tree.
It provides wonderful shade for the birds in the summer, and it
will help shelter them from a lot of wind and rain in the winter.
We used vinyl-coated chicken wire for the perimeter fence, and
the top of the pen is completely netted.
All of our birds are fed certified
organic feed. We purchase this feed in bulk from the great folks
at Millenial
Eve Organics in NW Washington State. Click on the link if
you would like more info or are interested in organic feed for
your own flock.
A very nice sized young plymoth
barred rock rooster.
Young Auracauna rooster and pullet
This is Merci, another young Auracauna
Rooster. (He was supposed to be a SHE!)
He's got personality to go along
with his wild coloring... looks like he can't decide what color
he's supposed to be!
One of our 2 buff orpington pullets
This is "Flappy", a young golden lace
wyandotte cockerel. As a tiny chick, he developed an abcess in
front of his eye (we think from a tiny wood sliver?). We handled
and doctored him every day so he's quite friendly and is always
the first to run up to us looking for a treat. We call him flappy
because as a tiny chick he would flap his little wing stubs whenever
we picked him up to work on his eye. He's growing into quite a
handsome bird!
Here's another view of the coop and pen. You can
see some of the nest boxes along the back wall of the coop, and
the trunk of the tree. We made the door a split one, so when the
sheep are in this same pasture, we can close the bottom and the
chickens can fly up to get back into their pen.
our 1 sebright hen and her single chick that hatched.
Our sebright roo. He is the father of the chick,
but we suspect one of our mix banties was the source of the egg.
Tikey Turkey as a young poult.
Here's our pet turkey! He's a Bourbon Red and will
NOT become our Thanksgiving feast.
Our Bourbon red poult and 2 Royal Palm poults above
a pair of our ring neck doves
Inside the new coop, baby chicks are getting ready
for bed, along with 1 turkey on the left, the sebright roo looking
on and the sebright hen on the floor brooding her chick.
Our Pheasant Roo
Our BobWhite male
sitting behind Pete the Peacock's tail