Bistro Peeps | Backyard Chickens at the RGB

In summer of 2011, we took the plunge and added  chickens to our brood! Read our micro blog below (fromthe bottom up) to see how they’re doing.

Sunday, October 9:

At the end of August, we added more to the flock. Fifteen, to be exact. Today, they grew out of the brooder and were relocated out back!!

The three remaining girls from the original flock of eight are now 15 weeks old. EGGS ANY DAY NOW!!!

Saturday, August 6:

Some photo updates:

Chicken Flurry

Friday, July 15, 2011:

This may be the last week we’re able to get good pictures of the little ladies. They do NOT like sitting in one place for more than a couple of seconds!

Bistro Peeps on July 15, 2011

Friday, July 8, 2011:

Chick E is now “Eddie.” Still trying to figure out names for the rest.

Bistro Peeps on July 8, 2011

Friday, July 1, 2011:

One week older, the Bistro Peeps are still doing great! (Other than stuffing their water bowl with their bedding.) I have a sneaking suspicion that Chick E, the Sicilian Buttercup, is a roo. You can see in the photo below he even stands a little “taller” than the rest of them, and walks with his chest out. We’ll find out in a few weeks…

Not any closer to building the coop… but we still have a few weeks!

Bistro Peeps on July 1, 2011

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Friday, June 24, 2011:

June reads at the RGB.

It all started off as one big joke. I kept telling people I was going to get chickens. And right behind me, Mr. RGBistro kept saying, “no, we’re not… she’s mistaken.”

For two years, the conversation never got farther than that.

But then… a series of unfortunate events happened, and I lost my cat. Not just any cat… but my heart cat; the little buddy who stuck by my side through (most) of my 20s. In a moment of sadness, I told Mr. RGBistro it’d be nice to add to the brood… and since a grown man doesn’t know what to do with a sobbing wife, he said “okay, you can have your chickens.”

Enter… the local library. The local bookstore. Fiction; non-fiction… I was immersed in chicken literature. Before long, I had purchased a set of blueprints and we were studying coop plans over breakfast.

I knew Mr. RGBistro was really along for the ride when I came home one day to four new posts and a roll of hardware cloth: gloves on, tools out, the man was ready to build a coop.

Without further ado, please welcome………. our new baby BISTRO PEEPS! 

Bistro Peeps on June 24, 2011

For now, the peeps occupy in a cardboard box under a pair of 100-watt heat lamps. In a few weeks, they’ll move out back to custom real estate under the grape trellis.

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