A Tale of Two Roosters
Until this last spring, we’d never had roosters at Curbstone Valley, and our intent was to keep it that way, but our last order of chicks resulted in not one, but TWO resident roosters. There are pros and cons to having roosters around. Most people are usually...
Electric Defences
This ‘Fowl Friday’ our focus is keeping our pullets safe from predators. At Curbstone Valley we’re striving for a balance between the native wildlife here, and the domestic feathered inhabitants of the farm. As much as we’d like to give our...
Egg Grading, Sizing and Freshness
As a follow-up to our egg formation post last week, now that we have a better understanding of what it takes to produce even one fresh egg, we thought we’d look a little closer at standard US egg grading, sizing, and freshness. Egg Grading Do you know what a...
Egg Formation
As promised in a previous post, this Fowl Friday we’re going to take a little diversion, and look more closely at how chicken eggs are formed. If you read our Pullet Eggs post, I mentioned that young chickens first coming into lay can often have little...
Monitoring Flock Health
As mentioned in our Gardening With Chickens post, small-scale poultry rearing in the United States has become very popular in recent years. Owning poultry comes with numerous responsibilities, including the daily care and welfare of our flocks. The most important...
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