Monday night we butchered five roosters. That leaves one lucky rooster with the chipper name of Evil. Evil got his name because he would give you evil’ish looks in the chicken pen. We kept him because he was the most … Continue reading
Back in April 2011 I ordered some new chicks. We wanted good foragers and smaller hens so they would eat less. I picked out 15 Lakenvelders as the core of my new flock and everything sounded great on paper. We’ve … Continue reading
Early this morning we checked on Punker and found that she had died. Lee brought her outside to do a chicken autopsy so we could figure out what had lodged in her crop. It was then that he realized that … Continue reading
My daily walk to the chicken pen turned out more eventful then usual today. Punker was laying on the ground looking mostly dead. I brought her into the house and we set up a re-cooperation pen for her. While looking … Continue reading
Filling chicken founts up everyday and sloshing water down your leg is a total drag! We love the automatic chicken waterer that we set up in our garden chicken pen so it was time to outfit the new hen pen … Continue reading
In May we built a reconfigurable chicken house to hold our new flock of chicks. Since we planned to build a moving rig for it, we located this mini-coop near our back porch for convenience. (Bad idea.) Unfortunately, the summer … Continue reading
When we got our original mix of hens two years ago, we felt like everything went pretty smooth with the process. This time, with our new batch of chickens, it seems like everything has gone wrong. I picked several new … Continue reading
While out in the chicken pen I noticed a hen who had crooked toes. None of the other chickens seem to have this issue. I tried to research crooked chicken toes, but most of the information I found addresses this … Continue reading
Our new chickens were 10 weeks old on Sunday. After raising them this far without incident, today we had the first loss. Robin went out to feed the chickens in the “victims pen” and found one of her two favorite … Continue reading
After we caught “Jake the egg eater,” the next day we caught two more chickens eating eggs. They were put in the box-o-shame. We got a previously cracked empty egg and filled it full of hot sauce and put it … Continue reading
