TweetOur hens are getting so big and now is the time to start watching for eggs. These are the first two and DH found another smaller one last night. It is hard to tell from the picture, but these are brown eggs not white. Most of our chickens are Rhode Island Reds, with a few…
TweetIn the 7 years I have lived in rural America I have made homemade jams, put up frozen squash, green beans, and apples, made zucchini bread (from zucchini from our garden), learned to ride a lawn tractor, started raising chickens, and now, made pickles. That is a lot coming from a girl who spent most…
TweetToday DH, Stephen, & I dug up two bushels of potatoes and picked the last of the beans. Then DH plowed the ground in preparation for the Fall crop. Later DH cleaned out the chicken coop and tonight we put fresh straw down. Those chickens sure do have the life! What was I doing while…
Tweet Okay, so it is not really an ode. And, it is called a Leghorn, not a “white” chicken. But, this is a post to say farewell to one of my chickens. No, no, no, it is not like that. She was hit by a truck this morning and landed in the neighbor’s field. One…
TweetI never thought I would enjoy having chickens around as much as I do. Every morning I go down to their coop to let them out for the day – they are free range. And every night around 8:00 pm I head down to feed them in what I refer to as the “running of…
