A Crazy Cock-Eyed Cock
Our rooster came over to check me out (i.e. wait for a food handout) when I was taking pictures of wood piles (Yes, my life is really that exciting these days.) so I snapped a quick one at just the right moment…
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Many Ways to Keep a Chicken – Guest Post by Anna
When my husband and I first brought chickens to our new homestead, we jumped on the chicken tractor bandwagon because it seemed to be the thing to do. Since then, though, we’ve been assessing various alternative chicken keeping arrangements and no longer believe that chicken tractors are the best method for every situation. I’ve summed [...]
The Chicken Dilemma
We have six hens and three roosters. One of the hens is gimpy after Clyde tried to eat her. She seems to be fine with hobbling around on a bumb-leg, but can’t go forage like the others. One rooster was raised by a turkey and sleeps in his own coop while his adoptive mother now roosts in the trees with the guineas. Out of six hens, we are only getting about one egg a day – if we’re lucky. I guess it’s closer to five a week.
Our Surrogate Turkey Mamma and Her Little Peepers
Our turkey hen went broody, but 30 days later I had to remove her eggs since they obviously weren’t going to hatch. But she wouldn’t get off of her nest so I took some chicken eggs and put them under her. It is been another 21 days and her marathon of broodiness has paid off [...]
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