Hey y'all, meet Melissa's new favorite chicken: Mohawka. She's a silver laced wyandotte chicken, a heritage breed named for the wyandotte Indian nation that helped the early colonists so much. Mohawka

Well, that didn't turn out exactly how I hoped. But whatever, she's cute so it's easy to forgive her pooping on the coffee table. This is one of our two Rhode island reds. They don't have names yet except

I got a hankering for new chickens and started brainstorming last week. With Melissa on board and a new coop lined up as soon as I can borrow a trailer, all I lacked was a brooder, chicks, and some motivation.

Dark AB wants to know how the fork went! This chicken is one of the ones I call The Littles. They're still babies, but growing very fast! Their names are TB and the ABs (AB is pronounced "Abby").

Checked on the chickens today. Here's some updates from my last post. On day one (of understanding what was happening), I put some things in their water. In a half gallon waterer, I usually put "a

I noticed three or four days ago that Blondie, our new easter egger pullet smelled funny. "Stinky chicken, but you sure are pretty," I told her. "That's okay, you'll clean up and smell just

This is and update to my fundition campaign So, I put the chooks out normal yesterday morning. Kept the littles in the run in their tractor so they could teach the bigs a thing or two about scratching,

I'm getting to where I have to add the year to these now. It's been about a year since I first got chickens. Today, the littles are tractoring through a forest of squash. I picked this spot for the good

This is an update to my Permaculture Chickens Fundition Campaign We purchased three baby easter egger chicks today! As soon as he heard I was interested in setting up a Fundition campaign, @makinstuff

Nature It's been a while, so let's start with the not-so-daily #dailychicken. These little chicks hatched a month or so ago and are now outside full time. They are part Australorp and part Ameraucana.

Just a short 7 second clip today while I'm logged in and claiming my DTUBE account. This is one of my favorite things in the forest garden: experiencing the chickens. A natural, holistic, immersive experience

The chickens are up and at em now! I've received the funds from @makinstuff's enormous donation, and will be setting up this weekend to get more chickens! There'll be a fundition update at that point to

Return of the Daily Chicken! Hey y'all! Our first trio of chookies is getting used to their new home, and I'd like to formally introduce them as an update to my Fundition Proposal. Their names are Bonnie,

Chickens are back on the homestead! We picked up six cream crested legbar pullets and two cockrels today. 4+1 for our friends, and 2+1 for us. They'll lay very pretty sky blue eggs here soon. I worked

Animals are an integral part of ecological systems. They reduce waste streams, increase soil fertility, regulate pest cycles, and feed people. In a small scale sustainable system, chickens may be the animals

Some of y'all know my story with my precious chickens. Friday night, as I was out of town for a farming conference, the last two got killed by a predator. As I'm over here racking my brain over how to

Miss turkey is a lot sweeter lately. She lets me hold her sometimes. She used to be the most skittish, but since I've been handling her more regularly she's warming up to me a bit. The plan for the chicken

Our last two chickens. Koekoek and Turkey. My favorite, best, and sweetest chicken, and the first chicken we got. The other eleven are dead. Killed over the last week and a half by something. Sometimes

I used to think foxes were swell. I thought they were desirable animals to have skulking around ones house. When I saw one I greeted it cheerfully, friendly-like. They eat mice you see, and I've got mice.

This has not been a good week for my chickens! A few hours ago I noticed Betsy was not with the others. Since she tends to roam off on her own some, I went a-lookin' for her. There were no signs either