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How to Spell Chicken

I’ve yet to give a proper introduction to our backyard chickens. So as not be playing favorites with the goats… Below is a video of the winter day in February when we picked up eight Rhode Island Red pullets from a farm out in Parker, Colorado and ushered them into their new home. The brood has been an […]

Hen Habitat

The backyard coop is complete!  Here it is in the final getting together phases:                           Tony used Colorado Pine Beetle-Kill wood for the siding and protected it with used motor oil taken from my brother in law’s work. I actually put in a […]

Bock! Bock! Who’s There?

The chicken coop is near completion and I cannot wait ’til the chickens come home to roost. Wait, I think that means, well, nevermind… Still, it’ll be nice to stop paying $6 for local farm fresh eggs, walk outside and grab a few backyard farm fresh eggs for the morning scrambler. Tony and his dad […]