A Frightful Fowloween!
This frightful Fowl-oween the hens have been helping to investigate some rather suspicious activity on the farm. Last night, just as the sun set, and I was about to make dinner, the power suddenly went out to the entire farm. At the time, the hens were safely tucked...
Jeepers Creepers, Where’d You Get Those Peepers?
This Fowl Friday we thought we’d show you how much our hens are making a spectacle of themselves. This has nothing to do with the lastest craze in poultry fashion though, it’s because some of our girls have aquired the evil habit of feather-picking their...
An Egg-Stravaganza!
To celebrate the start of spring, last weekend we were invited by Lisa and Robb to attend their 2011 Egg-Stravaganza. The purpose of the event was to spend a crafty afternoon learning the art of Pysanky. A Pysanka is a traditionally decorated Ukranian Easter egg. ...
Of Frosted and Frightened Fowl, and Feathered Friends
We haven’t done a Fowl Friday post in a while, so I thought we’d do a quick update. Through much of winter the chickens have been hunkered down, trying to stay out of the rain, and of course, last weekend…the snow. Frosted Fowl Our retired orchard...
Siegfried is Superseded
In A Tale of Two Roosters we explained that our roosters, Siegfried and Frodo, couldn’t be more dissimilar in their personalities, even though they were raised together. We also alluded to the fact that of the two, Siegfried was becoming disturbingly...
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