Posted in urban chickens on Dec 14th, 2007
My grandmother must be whispering to those chickens. For the first time ever, all six (6!) of our hens laid an egg on the same day. That’s a lot of eggs, especially if they keep that up on a regular basis. This was officially Maisie’s first egg.
From left to right, eggs were laid by:
Danny (bantam […]
Posted in urban chickens, recipes, locavore on Dec 11th, 2007
What are we, or they, so afraid of? I stopped at our neighborhood QFC today, not really to grocery shop, but to grab a few things I knew they would have. Or at least thought I knew they would have since I didn’t have time to go to the co-op.. All I was after was […]
Posted in misc, urban chickens on Dec 10th, 2007
This was just too funny not to share.
Thanks to One a Day for the link.
Posted in urban chickens, Uncategorized on Dec 8th, 2007
You might not have even noticed if I did the redirect right, but Urban Hennery has moved to a new home this weekend. I used to do website management for a living and it’s been bugging me for a while not to have total control over the look, feel and functionality of my blog.
So I moved. […]
Posted in urban chickens on Dec 6th, 2007
I don’t usually get that excited about eggs anymore. But today we got the first egg ever from Danny our tiny black banty hen. It’s the smallest chicken egg I’ve ever seen. I couldn’t find a ruler, but it was smaller than a standard 35mm roll of film. And about a third of the size […]
Posted in urban chickens, personal, Dark Days on Nov 28th, 2007
There are a couple side effects of having a heat lamp with a red bulb in the girls’ roost box for warmth.
1. They’re party girls - up until all hours of the night
2. When they get really brave they even venture out into the run in the strange reddish light
3. We’re starting to get eggs […]
Posted in recipes, urban chickens, locavore, family, eat local, Dark Days on Nov 24th, 2007
I won’t bore you with a long list of where our ingredients came from or how far they traveled. But suffice it to say that we had a mostly local, very delicious Thanksgiving dinner. Things that weren’t local that made it to the table? Black olives, organic chicken broth, dried sour cherries, sugar, salt, pepper, […]