Chicken Breeding Pens | Setting Them Up And Choosing My Best Chickens

Chicken Breeding Pens
We are gearing up for the Silkie hatching season for as early as March! Its time for me to to setting up my silkie chicken breeding pens for color chicks and select the best Silkies from my flock. Our goal is to set up for breeding silkie chickens for specific color. We have set up our silkie breeding pens to get splash, blue and black chicks. We start gathering hatching eggs at the end of January for chicks to hatch mid to late February. We have had to wait ONE MONTH since the breeding pens move so that the hens no longer hatch from the previous rooster they were housed with. Join us in this journey to increase our breeding flock and to get the most beautiful healthy chickens we can.

ABOUT US
We are Bill and Rebecca and this is Birch Moon Farm. A simple living homestead/farmstead where we try to practice a simply sustainable lifestyle. In 2015 we purchased 5+ acres in the Vermont hills and for the first 18 months lived in a 250 sq ft RV, while we built our own house (with lots of help from amazing friends and family), 3 sheds, a driveway, water well, septic, 2 chicken coops.

So what made us do all this in our late 40's early 50's? Well, in 2013 Rebecca was diagnosed with breast cancer and mostly everything that goes with that type of diagnosis. And this all happened 6 months after our wedding. So after about 10 months of treatments, a couple of surgeries, chemo and radiation, we had had enough. We no longer subscribed to what people call the "American Dream". And we didn't want to wait until we were in our late 60's to live our dream. So we sold or gave away everything we owned, and took all our assets and started to live our dream where we would try to be as self sufficient as possible. Do we always succeed? Nope! But we try! And in the end, isn't that all that matters?

Birch Moon Farm is now home to 2 humans, 2 cats, one dog and lots of silkie chickens! Follow along with us while we build our homestead one project at a time.

OUR FLOCK
blue silkie chickens
black silkie chickens
buff silkie chickens
splash silkie chickens
white silkie chickens

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