Memorial

On June 24, 2012 I lost my beloved little rooster Kingston. During the night he was snatched away from his home. Due to family errors we did not close one of our little slide doors to our coop, and so during the night we believe a possum that lives under the coop got him. Kingston sleeps on the floor so he was basically a sitting duck. I miss him a lot and it is hard to not think of him everytime I step into the coop and his little mate milly is taking this the hardest she is so lonely without him. So I wanted to so rest in peace Kingston I will miss you so much and I am really sorry.

Kingston Krumenacher

March 6- June 24
We will miss you little man <3

Turkeys Part 1

Ok, so I said that I would tell you the story about our domestic turkeys. We got to baby turkeys about 1 year and a half ago and 1 Royal Palm named Turks he is the boy and then Caicos the Chocolate girl. We knew immediately that turks was the boy because my mom said that he was strutting in the cage and that's why she picked him. When Caicos about full size and we let her and turks out she decided to lay eggs turks fertilized them and everything but when she first laid them it was about the en of October &nbsp; so it was cooler and one morning we noticed that she was gone. We looked everywhere but could not find her a day later my oldest brother Owen was playing football outside and his ball went under our trailer and sure enough there was Caicos sitting under there. I immediately took care of her and boarded the trailer up so she would keep warm I brought her food and water and some scraps so she would not need to get up but that didn't stop her she got up 3 times I think that whole time she was on the nest. There were about 13 eggs in the nest and we loved to just lay with her and cuddle and keep her warm about the 17th of November it's our annual deer hunting trip and we need the trailer so we finally had to boot her of the nest. We checked the eggs by cracking one but all it was, was a rotten egg. It was really disappointing and I felt bad for Caicos because when we got rid of the nest she would always go back and wonder where her eggs where. But we had another break through It was about beginning of June and during the week we noticed that Caicos was more in the woods and was looking around in the brush and piles of sticks. A couple of days later Caicos was gone and that's when we knew that she was on a nest for sure........... TO BE CONTINUED!

The Beginning

Authors Note: I have been trying to start this blog for a while but I wasn't sure what to say so I am just gonna say it.

My name is Chloe Krumenacher I am the oldest of 3 younger brothers. I could be your average girl but i'm not. My family and I have been raising chickens for 13 years since I was born, we have over 30 chickens right now, 1 turkey, (really 7 but there missing I'll talk about in another post) and 1 dog. I'm not going to name all of the breeds now but I will tell you that we have 1 "batch" of mixed breeds we had 3 roosters but we go rid of them because they were becoming a nuisance to the girls. Then we have another "batch" of black sex links. "Batch meaning, we get chicks around early March we keep them inside until they are about 5 weeks old and of they go to the coop. One the other side is the older girls since we have a double sided coop we can have two "batches." Anyway the little ones go outside and behind the coop we have a fenced in area for them to stay since my mom doesn't like them messing with her flowers. '

The babies that we have now are about 2 months old and the older girls are 1 year we only keep them for 2 years and then they go to the butcher. That is not a fun ride. That is basically my world tucked in the woods with no one to care.