Wildflower Honey Urban Farm

07/22/2024

It's been a busy life with an almost 11 month old- but here are some pictures of what chicken life has been like lately!

03/20/2024

We finally caught our egg eater! Possums are stubborn! I was able to get him out of the coop and he ran back home.

03/18/2024

Chicken Tender in training. 🐥🌻

08/10/2023

Babies are growing up! We have several more that recently hatched! 🧡🐣

08/03/2023

My little green bean and tomato harvest from this morning 🍅

07/08/2023

All I'm saying is that it should be illegal to have these chickens in the city of Raleigh and not have actual chickens! I think they should be rehomed to a real chicken home! 😜😉

07/07/2023

Squash from the garden 🌻

07/05/2023

Frozen Chicken Treats on this hot day! 🍌🫐🥬🥒

07/04/2023

Baby Sunflower Chick hatched and will be going to her new home tomorrow. 🐥🌻

07/04/2023

A lot of people have been asking how to keep your chickens cool during this heat!
Here are some tips:
-Shade- lots of shade. You can use shade tarps, beach umbrellas, roofing, or planting bushes for them to go under!
-Water- not the ni**le waterers- waterers where they can dunk their whole beak in! You can also go to the dollar tree and get oil pans for $1.
-Dirt- yes dirt, they will love to dust bathe and roll around in the cool dirt.
-Frozen fruits and veggies
-A box fan in the coop!

06/30/2023

Hate this, but so true. Except those pesky squirrels!! They have plenty of room already!! 🐿

06/25/2023

Absolutely love this coloring on my sunflower pullet! 🌻

06/24/2023

2 mamas raising 3 babies! 🧡🐥
Update: I think Stevie on the right thinks the mama on the left is her baby too- She keeps sitting on her 🤣🤦‍♂️

05/13/2023

Cheesecake & Cheeto, years later still here, super healthy, friendly and still laying eggs! And still my favorite desert and snack foods! 😄🐔🐔🧡🧡

05/07/2023

Second baby has hatched! 🎉🐣
She is a sunflower/buff ameraucana and hatched from my dark olive eggs! She has a lot of buff coloring! 🧡

05/04/2023

First baby hatched! 🥚🌻🐣🩷

05/02/2023

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04/09/2023

Happy Easter! If anyone needs eggs they are available! 🥚🩷🌻

03/23/2023

Had a huge swarm move into one of my empty hives this afternoon! Super exciting! I bundled up, gave them some sugar water and fresh regular water and watched them! 🐝🌻

03/07/2023

These ladies are laying like crazy! 🌻🥚

02/15/2023

Planted some Daffodils today. ☀️🌱

02/14/2023

So glad my Splash Ameraucana has started laying her blue eggs! 🩵🥚

02/07/2023

Does anyone else let their chickens live off their compost?
I have started doing this a couple weeks ago! This helps reduce feed consumption (saving money) and gives the chickens a job to do! They do all the turning of the compost so I don't have to!

https://www.reformstead.com/2_ways_to_compost_with_backyard_chickens_that_will_save_money_on_your_feed_bill.html

02/03/2023

Love these beautiful olive eggs from my Sunflower Hens! 🌻

01/27/2023

Please understand that chickens take a laying break every year during the winter due to less daylight & molting. Your chickens did not take a break from laying because of a rumor about chicken feed. Please do your own educated research from actual sources when deciding to own chickens.

https://www.fresheggsdaily.blog/2012/11/why-arent-my-chickens-laying-eggs.html?m=1

Your chickens quit laying eggs?
It's not the feed in most cases, unless you are not feeding a balanced chicken food. It's not the Tractor Supply food. We have a ton of new owners in the chicken world who bought chickens during the pandemic. Those chicks laid during the first winter as usual, but many of these new chicken owners don't realize they will typically stop the next winter, sometimes from August/November to February/March. And the third winter they will probably stop for a bit longer. Each year after a molt and a break, they will lay again, but typically they will lay fewer eggs each year. That's perfectly normal. Their bodies need a break from the tough routine of egg laying. (Plus there are people who buy older hens and don't realize they stop laying in winter. And people who buy from certain lines and breeds that don't lay very well anyway) In addition, this past summer and fall many places had rather interesting weather. Several of us breeders had girls who had two complete molts in the fall, something none of us had ever seen before. And we all feed different foods. Sometimes the weather is just weird, and that affects egg laying.
Someone online started a rumor this fall about tractor supply food. Now it's a popular enough rumor that people are changing foods, and the rumor is absolutely everywhere. Lots of people claiming they are doing "scientific" experiments by changing the food and counting eggs each day.
Number one, that's not a scientific experiment. Number two, of course they are seeing more eggs now, since this is when the days are getting longer and the hens are naturally beginning to lay again. Totally natural part of keeping chickens, but we just have a HUGE group of relatively new chicken owners in the US who are experiencing this for the first time. Several have gotten each other all excited on social media. So if you frequent chicken groups on social media, avoid the drama.
Walk away. Don't respond. Let them learn. Do not participate. You won't change their mind and engaging will just increase your stress. Go hug a chicken.

12/09/2022

One of my favorite ornaments on my tree. 🎄🐓

12/07/2022

Patrick free ranging last week. 🧡

10/27/2022

My 2 Golden Cuckoo Marans from Little Birdie Chicken Farm and Hatchery 🐓

10/15/2022

Happy Saturday from Wildflower Honey! 🐓🍁🍂

09/28/2022

Well. I found where one of my chickens was laying her eggs. 🙃🥚