This year has been really bad for us with predators. It seems every time we dispatch one, another shows up. Every time we secure one pen, ...

This morning I had to put down a chicken. I'd seen this big white rock hen slowing down the last few days. There was just something no...

  It was normal Wednesday for us. Big Onion and I were away from the farm working our "real jobs" when we got a call from the neig...

 I had been seeing this little red chicken acting funny for a few days. Her comb looked pale, her feathers mussed, and she had a habit o...

The " corgi butted " chickens are now running loose with the rest of the flock. When we finally opened their pen door and le...

  The business side of the farm has been steadily increasing over time. These days a lot of our income comes from selling our wonderful, pas...

 Lately evening chores have been taking longer than normal. Usually, getting our free ranging flock of chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, an...

  Back at the beginning of April our local feed store was having a customer appreciation promotion. If you bought a bag of Start and Grow, ...

 I had every intention of draping the goats with beads yesterday and taking some fun Mardi Gras pics, but the weather was so gross both the...

I has just occurred to me that I never did finish telling the story of our broody hen. ( Part 1 , Part 2 )   Well, she sat on that ne...

  Our broody hen had been sitting on her nest of eggs for about 2 weeks and all was going well. We had another couple hens go broody in that...

  We have one cage in the poultry house that opens out into the pasture. We use to as a time out pen for broody hens. You see we keep chick...

  On Sunday we processed about half of our red broilers. I have to say, of all the meat birds we have raised, I think the red broilers ar...

I hear people say it all the time. "My dog hates getting wet." "My dog won't step in the mud." "My puppy just c...

 The last litter of bunnies is getting bigger by the minute. Our two does, Clover and Zinny, finally have this mothering thing down. We en...

Last year we blogged about an experiment in raising our own meat chickens. The results were good , but not great. Our plans, however, ca...

The rain just keeps falling around here and more and more of the pasture is surrendered to water and mud. The chickens are learning to...