Posted in chickens, personal, one local summer, locavore, gardens on Jun 26th, 2008
Tonight we ate the rockstar. It went from the garden to the steamer to our plates to our mouths in less than an hour. And we agreed that it was pretty much the best broccoli we’d ever had.
Luckily the rock star has groupies (side shoots) that we should be able to enjoy on Sunday night […]
I realized the other day that it’s been a while since I talked chicken. Or at least since the news wasn’t bad. If you didn’t already know better you might think we didn’t have hens!
So last night while I was working in the hen shack I took a bunch of photos of the flock. It […]
Thank you to everyone that commented on last night’s post. I’m still very bummed about the lost chicks, as much because it was my fault as for any other reason. The remaining birds seemed a bit uneasy last night but today were right back to their treat begging selves. They didn’t seem at all bummed […]
There are hard lessons to learn in life and sometimes they come and bite you in the ass right when you think things are going along swimmingly. Today we lost 3 of the chicks - Molly the white banty, a light brahma and a golden laced wyandotte.
Event though our nice next door neighbor had warned […]
Posted in chickens, daily photo on May 5th, 2008
This is Wilma. She’s one of the chicks, who are now 8 weeks old.
She’s a silver laced Wyndotte and after much consideration, I’ve decided to name her and her twin Wilma and Betty. Not sure why other than that it was the first pair of women that jumped into my head when she […]
Posted in chickens on May 4th, 2008
This is our new rooster, Steve. I picked him up from my friend Denise when I was at the Edible Plant Sale yesterday. She’s long on roosters, and I decided that you can’t have a farm without a big pretty rooster.
He crowed all the way home in the car yesterday, and serenaded us […]
Posted in chickens, farm, vacation, family on Apr 29th, 2008
Is that kind of like fish in a barrel? I guess it might be if a coyote figured out how to get in or the eagle decided to visit. But anyway, I think they’re safer now than they were before. And the neighbor’s veggie garden definitely is.
With the help of my parents, Mike and […]
