The Chook Nook - Urban Farm & Homestead

01/28/2024

The vegetable seedlings are growing like weeds! They will be separated and transplanted into larger containers over the next few days where they will continue growing indoors over the next several weeks until ready for hardening off outdoors.

Coming soon for the Spring/Summer growing season are as follows:

🥬 Black Seeded Simpson Leaf Lettuce
🥬 Paris Isle Romaine Lettuce
🥬 Bibb Butterhead Lettuce
🥬 Golden Acre Cabbage
🥬 Premier Kale
🥬 Dinosaur Kale
🥬 Salad Sensation Spinach
🥬 Bloomsdale Spinach
🌶️ Cayenne Pepper
🌶️ Hungarian Yellow Pepper
🫘 Burpee Stringless Bean
🫘 Blue Lake Bush Bean
🫘 Super Snappy Pea
🫘 Snap Daddy Pea
🍅 Super Sweet 100 Cherry Tomato
🍅 Big Rainbow Tomato
🍅 Beefsteak Tomato
🍅 Red Cherry Tomato
🥔 Russet Potato

Once a bit of space is cleared in the smaller planting cells, herbs will follow. So stay tuned!

01/17/2024

Indeed! Our chooks can handle the cold due to their feathers but their little feet, combs, and wattles are especially sensitive to frostbite. So, our chooks hang out indoors during this kind of weather.

01/09/2024

These fluffy butts are getting bigger and fluffier every year! It’s very important to supplement your chickens’ diets with extra protein in the winter months, especially while molting!

Our chickens enjoy a variety of yummy protein treats year round, but some of my favorites to feed include soldier fly larvae, scrambled eggs, and cat food. Yes, cat food is a safe and economical way to help boost protein and chickens absolutely love it!

When they start to slow their laying during this time of year, we also switch them off of layer feed and onto something with more fat and protein such as a feather fixer recipe. This helps them regrow their feathers quickly and easily following a molt. Doing this also tends to allow them to bounce back from the shorter days and resume egg production a little earlier in the spring when we start to transition them back to a layer formula. They do not slow or stop laying during their spring molt as a result!

01/07/2024

Eggciting news! We are back and we are changing our name and how this page operates as a whole! For the moment, we are awaiting the name change review from our friends at Facebook to make it official (and if they don’t we’ll just make a new page) but in the coming days we will henceforth be called:

The Chook Nook - Urban Farm & Homestead

And there are more changes to come this year!! Fresh vegetables, herbs, chick hatching, and lots more so stick around while we grow into something great!

04/01/2023

The girls are enjoying a balmy Saturday morning after storms throughout the night. Mornings after rain are their favorites, lots of juicy bugs to hunt!

03/06/2023

Sneak peak at what’s coming at the end of the month! Every year it’s a good idea to add in a couple new hens so that you have a consistent amount of layers as others age out of laying or as you lose some (which is inevitable). 4 new ladies will be joining the flock this year!

02/28/2023

We have eggs!! The girls are laying quite well and we are now offering eggs for sale. See pricing below:

$1.50 - half dozen assorted
$3.00 - dozen assorted
$4.00 - dozen custom assortment (choose your own colors)
$5.00 - 2 dozen assorted
$5.00 - dozen all blues/all greens (please note that blue egg layers do not lay as often as the others and may result in a waiting list)

Pick up only, Cincinnati 45211

04/26/2022

As the flock grows, so does the assortment in the egg basket! They are almost getting too pretty to eat.

04/21/2022

Bee, a 3.5 week old cream legbar chick, hangs out with me in the kitchen today while I get the incubator ready for some hatching eggs.

04/17/2022

Happy Easter from the girls and I!

04/17/2022

Several have asked, so we made it happen.

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04/17/2022

Part of the adventure this year is learning how to grow crops for food right here in the backyard. I’m very happy that so many of my seeds have sprouted, but I might actually have ended up with too many. I’ve thinned several of these guys already!

04/16/2022

Who wouldn’t want eggs as beautiful as these? These gorgeous, free range eggs will be available for purchase in the next couple of weeks….as the increase in sunlight makes for an increase in egg production!

04/16/2022

Hi everyone, and thanks for coming to take a look at Lynn’s Hens & Home! We are at the beginning of our urban farm/small homestead adventure and decided to go ahead and create a page after suggestions from our local community who quickly fell in love with our chickens.

Our long term goal is a more self sustainable lifestyle. We are raising chickens for eggs and meat (but primarily eggs), learning how to compost fertilizer for growing crops, and learning how to grow crops!! For now we’re just a humble backyard urban homestead but one day we’re confident we’ll be able to take this a step further and have our own farm.

Feel free to stick around and follow us on our homesteading journey and for lots of tips and tricks along the way for making your home a more sustainable, nature friendly place to be!