Addressing My Wrong Chicken, Right Seat Issue
It has been a while since I last wrote about my chicken adventures. In late June, our flock grew to 20. Our three broody hens hatched 14 peeps. At some point, I’ll share that whole rather stressful adventure, but for now, I’ll skip over becoming a chicken grandma and...
Three Strikes and You Are Out!
A few weeks ago, my husband and I went on vacation. I can’t tell you what the time in the sun did for my mental outlook. I’d highly recommend you take some time to decompress after the stress of the past few years. However, leaving our house requires finding a dog sitter and a chicken sitter.
Cheers to a Good Night’s Sleep
One night last week, I felt restless. I couldn’t fall asleep, as I was thinking about everything I needed to do to prepare for and care for my new “peeps.” I was thinking about building a bigger chicken coop that could house more chicks, trying...
Effectively Onboarding my new “Peeps”
I want to preface this article with a confession. When I started writing about chickens over a year ago, I honestly thought I would run out of things to talk about. I mean, how exciting can chickens be? And how many ways can you tie...
Making the Hard Decisions Even When You Don’t Like Your Options
If you recall, the outcome of the big chicken massacre was a traumatized rooster (Oden) and an unscathed hen (we named her Sally the Survivor). The end result of one hen and a feisty rooster is an oversexed hen. I needed to solve my immediate problem: finding more...
How to Navigate Those “Liberties” Into a Thriving Business
Many of you have asked who killed my chickens. If you haven’t been following my ongoing chicken mama saga, you can find my last article here. But, just to quickly summarize, something killed six of my eight chickens, leaving a traumatized...
Regaining my Chicken Mojo
I write this with a heavy heart. Late last week, we lost six of our eight chickens. Things were going so well. The chickens had picked up on the remodeling vibe and asked that we provide them with some additional outdoor living space. So, we expanded beyond their...
Right Seat, Wrong Chicken?
As my husband and I started talking about getting chickens, we created our vision: free range chickens that laid lots of eggs. As you know, the first round of chickens were free range but they stopped laying eggs in our coop. Our second round has been confined to...
Chicken Pranks
So, all is quiet in the chicken coop. Oden, the rooster, has assumed control of the chickens. The baby chicks are about 16 weeks old and gaining confidence (and hopefully will be laying eggs soon), and the other hens are laying eggs and running away from Oden. We seem...