Kelly Averill Savino

Category: Back Yard Hens

  • Advice to go with those chick catalogs…

    For folks buying chicks for the first time: free advice! (Many of them opinions, but based on 21 years of backyard chickens). Worth what you paid, and your mileage may vary. 1.) Bantams are adorable but can fly, are attractive to hawks, and like to sleep in trees. 2.) Many young birds can fly, at…

  • Henhouse in a weekend… we used trash picked shower doors, free pallets and some recycled fence pickets to build a new coop for my hens.

  • Hen house from a shipping crate

    15 bucks for plastic roof, scrounged everything else… a two chicken hen house for a friend who wants a couple of layers. Click the photo for pix of the inside…

  • Transitional housing

    OK, so when the new chickies come int he mail, I set them up in a former guinea pig cage with a heat lamp, in our sun room where we can watch and enjoy them. In a few weeks, though, the fuzzy peepers become feathery poopers. Chickens have an awkward adolescent stage, much like most…

  • It’s a hatch…

    Three of the fancy show bantam eggs we brought home from the Ohio State Fair have hatched under my broody little mama hen, Jennecita. Four more are still eggs, but morning will maybe bring more. That’s happy stuff. And the pigeons are in their new eight sided dovecote, roosting on the perches Connor built, using…