Meet Our Flock: The Birds Behind C&K Roost Co.

C&K Roost Co. did not begin with a product catalog. It began with birds in the yard, daily chores, questions we did not always know the answers to, and the realization that keeping poultry well is one of those things that keeps teaching you.

Our flock is the reason a lot of the practical advice on CKR matters to us in the first place.

As of August 3, 2026, our backyard flock includes 20 birds: 17 chickens and 3 female ducks. They are not a marketing prop. They are the real animals behind many of the questions we ask when we evaluate products, write keeper guides, or decide whether a piece of advice makes sense in day-to-day use.

The chickens

Our current chicken flock includes 17 birds from three hatch groups.

Four Black Sex-Link hens were hatched March 1, 2026.

Nine assorted chickens were hatched April 1, 2026. Six are hens and three are roosters.

Four probable Barred Rocks were hatched May 1, 2026. Three appear to be hens and one appears to be a rooster, though we are still treating that identification as tentative.

One of the April roosters is Henry. If you have seen him in CKR imagery or on our About page, he is one of the real birds behind the brand—not a stock-photo mascot.

The ducks

Our three ducks are two Black Swedish females and one Pekin female, all hatched March 1, 2026.

Keeping ducks alongside chickens has already made one thing obvious: mixed poultry changes the practical details. Water use, wet mess, behavior, and daily observation are not identical across species. We will use this series to document those differences carefully rather than pretending one setup works exactly the same for every bird.

Why “Our Flock” is a CKR article group

There are plenty of chicken articles online that repeat the same general advice. We do not want Our Flock to become another version of that.

The point of this series is to add firsthand context where it is genuinely useful.

When we talk about waterers, feeders, bedding, coop equipment, free-ranging, flock expansion, or health observation, we can explain what we have actually seen in our own yard. Just as important, we can distinguish what we have personally experienced from what comes from veterinary, Extension, or other authoritative guidance.

Our flock is not the final authority on poultry keeping. It is our real-world testing ground and the reason we keep asking better questions.

What you can expect from Our Flock

This will not be a daily diary or a stream of cute-bird updates with no practical value. We want each Our Flock article to earn its place.

Some posts will introduce individual birds. Others will look at the systems behind a backyard flock: water, feed, housing, predator awareness, health observation, equipment, and the realities of “chicken math.” When something happens in our own flock that raises a broader keeper question, we will tell you what happened without turning one household’s experience into universal advice.

That is the role we want Our Flock to play: real birds, real lessons, clear boundaries between experience and expert guidance, and practical information that helps another backyard keeper make a better decision.

These are the birds behind C&K Roost Co. And they keep giving us new reasons to learn.