PULLETS ARRIVE AT URBAN FARM!

HELLO and welcome to Garden Daddy here at the urban farm! What a great day here at this garden home & urban farm here in Jackson, TN. I would like to introduce you to my little flock of chicks. I am thrilled with everything other than I was substituted my little Delaware hens that were not delivered to the feed store due to unsuccessful hatching and the feed stores' order was not filled due to this issue. BUT...the problem was resolved with the substitution of the Delawares with Black Jersey Giants. These are very large, heavy, very-very docile birds that are good layers of good large to extra large brown eggs. The hens can often weigh around 10-lbs when mature but are a little slow to mature due to their size, but good consistent layers through winter. Often showing a little white on the underside until their final adult molt, these all shiny black chickens have black legs and feet with a rather large showy comb, making them excellent exhibition birds.
SO, WELCOME HOME, LITTLE GIRLS:








I hope these little darlings grow healthy, happy and into very productive egg layers and give this Garden Daddy here at the urban farm some working environment for my future garden tours and possible teaching through my UT Master Gardener outlets as well as in Jackson, TN. in general. It is a little after 7:00pm here this evening and I am going to check on the "girls" and put them to "roost" for the night. And tomorrow will just "hang with my peeps"!
I leave you this eventful day with the our 2nd ongoing gardening affirmation: "URBAN FARMING: ONE EGG AT A TIME!"