HenHustle
@TheHenHustle
Struttin’ #Chickens, Side-Splittin’ #Memes, #Egg-spert Coop Tips 🐔 #HenHustle
What a day! One of our Mottled Houdan pullets started laying 🥳 🥚🥚🥚 @ 19 weeks and 4 days since hatch. Her first egg is small, but so cute! The color is not pure white - more like bone. For comparison, here we have Buff Orpington and ISA Brown eggs alongside it.

I just got scolded for keeping chicken “paraphernalia” in the kitchen 🥹😅

There we go - a lovely large egg ☺️ our first Buff Orpington's egg of the year!
Expecting my Buff Orpington pullets to start laying any day now 🙏 Got them in the middle of March. They are checking out nesting boxes everyday - getting ready 😜
my two Orpington brothers are developing at a very different pace...

Expecting my Buff Orpington pullets to start laying any day now 🙏 Got them in the middle of March. They are checking out nesting boxes everyday - getting ready 😜
Chicks are happy to move to a larger room and their orange supervisor appreciates new source of entertainment 🐈

Check this contraption out that she is hanging her chicken in to take care of it. What a great idea! It’s the same thing people put dogs in to clip their nails!
Freshly baked bird egg pie (a.k.a quiche) on a sourdough crust 😋

Much of the problem stems from YouTube videos. Creators make this life looks so perfect and wholesome. They don't show you the blood, the tears, the mud, the mess, the poop, or the death. They don't show broken equipment, flooded pastures, or pest infestations. They also don't…
I wonder how many people sought out the homestead and left in less than a few years. I have a suspicion the realities of rural living, the culture shift, the distance to amenities and more aren’t always well factored in. Better expectations need to be established - this isn’t a…
The flock is LOVING their new run! 🥬🐔 Can you spot the two sneaky non-chickens? 🔍

Chicken is so expensive these days. So I started planting mine. credit to @WittyLevi for inspiration 😅

Soft-boiled eggs, meat and cheese for lunch. Am I not an #egg-spert?

She lays on the coop floor everyday and I finally caught her. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Can't blame her - looks like a box, is a box...
