Hope everyone is enjoying the beginnings of spring! The first two days of spring in Missouri have felt more like summer with temperatures in the mid 70s and 80s. Today is supposed to reach 90! First, I'd like to apologize to those who'd shown interest in learning how to grow a chicken herb garden 🐔🌿🪏. The busyness of life got me behind on my own seed starting, which meant I wasn't able to get any photos, videos, or written guides done for you. Then, unfortunately, death made the situation worse. Two weeks ago today, I lost my first chicken, my favorite girl Morticia Eggams. It was sudden and we don't know what happened. She was fine that morning and when I came home later that morning she was looking badly. She passed in my arms an hour later. Four days later, my daughter's almost 18 year old beagle, my favorite grand fur baby, Sissy, had to be euthanized. This sweet girl has been by my daughter's side for more than half her life and it was very sad for all of us. My best chicken friend lost two of her girls in the same time frame. We've spent many hours on the phone and in person consoling and commiserating over the past two weeks. And finally, my pitbull, Imani, was diagnosed with mast cell cancer the day after my daughter's dog passed away. We had surgery done last Monday and we're awaiting results from the tissue sent for grading. We lost her "brother", our pitbull, Jake, to mast cell cancer several years ago. At least this time I knew what to look for and we hopefully caught it early and got the mass removed completely. On the first day of spring, we had 8000 lbs of soil delivered 🚜for the new raised garden beds we built. Between construction of the beds and hauling wheelbarrows of soil from the driveway to the back of our property, we've been very busy (and sore!) for the past couple of weekends. I've managed to catalog all of my seeds so I can begin indoor seed starting and designing my new garden bed plans. I can recommend several really good sources for chicken garden starting in the meantime if anyone wants to get going while I get my 💩 together 😆. Thank you for your understanding. I hate promising help to people and not being able to deliver.

How many chickens are in your flock, and which one has the biggest personality? Share their name, a pic, and their funniest habit.

I haven't said anything about our business in here for the reason that I want to make sure this community stays flowing with great conversations and information all related to chickens. That is the ultimate goal for this community and I've seen some amazing conversations, helpful posts and tons of great stuff so far! But I would be holding back if I didn't tell you about the business we run here that is right up the alley of most of you chicken tenders. As some of you know, we run a brand called The Chicken Bawks. It's a monthly tshirt subscription and other chicken apparel focused solely on the love of chickens. We've been doing this since 2020 and have a solid portfolio of reviews and our commitment to making amazing chicken tees for the backyard tender community. We currently ship to every state in the US every single month and we LOVE doing it! So while I'll keep this few and far between in terms of "promotion" I want to be forward about myself and the brand behind this community. Our first focus is to build this into a community larger than our brand and reach new chicken tenders with a great place to find awesome chicken info and other people to connect with. That will remain the focus but thought you should also know about our tees. Feel free to give us a look, we just happen to be running some special deals this weekend and you can get in on it if you want. Check the spring collection out at https://thechickenbawks.com/pages/spring-collection

We had to give up Lucky roo 😭😭😭 The girls are all over the place. They started laying eggs outside the nesting box. How do I get them to lay back again in the nests and not all over the coop? . 🤔

My babies are out free ranging with the big girls today