Category: Chickens

Chicken pics and tom-foolery

Upcoming Events

April events include the long awaited Shearing.  I am so excited to get this fiber off of the alpacas.  Almost as excited as they are, I’m sure.  The weather has been agreeable but they...

More Gourd Crafts Ideas

Chicken gourd crafts… My harvest of gourds has been setting on the porch for months and I finally mustered the energy to clean them up and spruce them up! I was inspired by the...

Life and loss on the homestead…

  Well, I didn’t expect that I would be writing about another loss so soon after Sasha, but we lost our laying hen, Cosmos, yesterday.  Cosmos was one of the original hens that we...

Chicken Tractor

Our Chicken tractor is finally complete.  We’ve been working on it in the evenings after work.  We found the plans here.   The instructions were easy to understand and the project was a lot...

Eggs at last!

My hens have begun to produce eggs again- at last. After a few months sabbatical, the ladies are turning up the soil, readying it for early spring sowing.