It was an exciting morning around here…I was tending chickens and thinking that the cows from next door were bawling a lot but sounded closer than usual, so they must be right at the fence. Then the ground started to rumble and when I looked up, about 2 dozen beautiful beasts were thundering up from […]
Gonna be another scorcher today, but I do love the early mornings to myself, on the porch with fresh coffee, cuddled into soft breezes and birdsong. Gymnastic red squirrels are twirling their way along the clothesline toward the bird feeders in the hopes of making a successful leap into a pile of breakfast. The birds […]
June 21, 2020 We’ve had our hens almost 4 weeks. As first-timers we thought we would play it safe and get 6 ready-to-lay 18-week-old pullets instead of hand-raising cute baby chicks. They arrived in a green plastic crate and there exists a video of me opening that to release them into our carefully constructed chicken […]
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