When we took our incidental rooster to live at my sister-in-law's (that's a whole different blog post) she offered us two of her lit...

Violet is our big barred rock hen, and she has a tendency to peck at things (especially sparkly, shiny things) as much for curiosity as for ...

Corn relish, sweet chunk pickles, and bread and butter pickles. The chickens have really been benefiting from my canning jag lately. S...

Gertie It started with Gertrude. We thought she'd be the first of the five young hens to lay. She was the biggest and the oldest, ...

Today was the first day of school for my daughters, and it was quiet in the house. And in the coop. We brought the chicks home in April, d...

Hens, in the self-preservation part of their DNA, just know when it's time to head into the coop in the evening. It's usually just a...

I am told that in the old days, if a dog got a chicken, said chicken would be tied around the dog's neck for days on smelly end, until t...