Enough about chickens! Let’s move on to introducing our second canine family member, Abby! Abby is also known as Abbylicious, Little Bit and more often, Goober. She is a hyper and adorable 2-year-old Cane Corso. She is about 85 pounds of running joy! If you haven’t heard of a Cane Corso, you are not alone. Read More
Month: March 2015
No water, no life…the evolution of our waterers!
Yesterday was all about food. Today it is all about water. Chickens have to have lots and lots and lots of water. Just like us, they can survive without food, but they cannot survive without water. It is always better to have what you think is too much than not enough. So, without further ado, Read More
I’m Hungry! The evolution of our chicken feeders-the bad, the good and the better!
Today, we are making a new feeder for the Chicken Tractor and fixing an old feeder for the run. So, how appropriate to write all about the evolution of our feeders. As I am sure you are wondering, How often do chickens eat? How do you feed them? What do you feed them? Believe me,there are Read More
Why does a chicken coop have two doors?
Because if it had four, it would be a chicken sedan! Ha! Sometimes I really crack myself up! Coops and runs, runs and coops! We have both! We have a coop with two runs and a run with a coop. This post is all about our main coop and our Chicken Tractor (better known as Read More
Blessings
Happy Sunday everyone! Initially, I was going to blog about chicken homes today; even took cutrent pictures and made sure I had all of the pictures of the build ready. However, time got away from me and here I am spending a beautiful evening outside on the deck with my hubs and enjoying a glass Read More
The canine family, part 1
In addition to the chickens, we have three amazing canine kids! The oldest is Jake who turned 9 last month is our “first born”. He goes by Jake, Knucklehead (mostly because he has a pronounced bone that sort if sticks up on the top of his head but sometimes he really acts like one), and Read More
Testing for Facebook
Let’s see how this works…as I am new to the blogging world, it seems it takes me a LONG time to figure out posting to different place!!
Our chickens!
We have had quite the adventure with our chickens and roos (roosters for those of you who are new all things chicken). We currently have 29 chickens that are either Brahma or Dominique. We HAD four roos but as of a couple of weeks ago they became dinner (YUMMY). Today’s post is simply an introduction Read More
Hello world!
Hello World! This is my very first post to my very first brand new blog! Welcome to White Collar Homestead! We hope you enjoy this blog as much as we hope we will. I will will be blogging about everything (well, almost everything) that happens around here, what we do, what our animals and such Read More