8.10.2012 Chicken Time
This entire week has been one long chicken dance. I rather hoped I would be finished with it tomorrow, but nah. This one’s gonna take a while. I am determined to cull my flock down to the break-even...
View Article9.7.2012 I Just Wanted to Plant Peas
On Monday, my goal was to plant peas, beets and wheat in the garden. The chickens were down to manageable levels. It was too wet to work the horses. The bees needed only minor tending. I really had...
View Article9.30.2012 Knocking on the Door
I have a fever today and my everything hurts. After struggling through chicken rounds, I took a couple of DayQuil and then went out to do the Sunday morning pony dust-off and weigh-in. Both my big...
View Article12.8.2012 Dorkings at the Gate
It’s been two weeks since I put my chickens in the coop. Trouble. From the first day. I walked into the Dorking side of the coop that first morning to find feathers everywhere. I did a head count...
View Article1.25.2013 Why Men Rule the World
We actually did get some snow this afternoon. About an inch. I know this because when I brought Ophelia in for dinner tonight, she had about that much on her back. She had icicles hanging off her...
View Article2.12.2013 Compost happens . . . or it doesn’t
I have wintered chickens in my coop for 3 years now. Each year, I have attempted the deep litter method. In a nutshell, you put down bedding, chickens poop and you add more bedding, ad infinitum. The...
View Article2.22.2013 Broody hen number 1
For the last week, my colored Dorking hen has been telling me that she really doesn’t want to lay more eggs. She really, really wants to be a mother. Now this particular hen has never been keen on...
View Article5.6.2013 Some days you get lucky. Some days you don’t.
I went to my beeyard today thinking that it had been two weeks since I last visited, but a quick check over my last set of notes told me I have been trapped in a time warp and three weeks … Continue...
View Article8.28.2013 Chickens New and Old
Yesterday, my new laying flock arrived. Well, in six months or so it will be my new laying flock. There’s just something about a brooder full of fluffy, new born chicks. They’re kind of like a seed...
View Article12.31.2013 A Wild December
The past thirty-one days have just been a whirlwind. There’s a reason I haven’t blogged much. Lots of them actually. December began with a medical emergency which I will not detail here, but it...
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