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Large Wooden Coop
Thanks to Jerry Sentes for this selection of photos of the chicken coop he recently built.
To Free Range or Not To Free Range
Barb : I rescued 5 chickens about a year ago and sadly, I am down to 2. All three of the chickens that I lost were due to [...]
Chickens in Summer – Keeping Chickens Cool in a Heat Wave
Regular readers of the newsletter will have already seen some cooling tips in past issues such as these 'Tips for Cooling Down in Hot Weather' and will hopefully [...]
A Bullied Hen and a Small Cut
Naomi : My family has six chickens. One of them (Patterns) has a cut under her nail on one of her claws, it makes her limp a little [...]
Mother Nature and Human Cultivation Working in Harmony
Sally : Many organic farmers understand the interconnectedness of life and so they not only don't use pesticides, but they have other farming practices that also work to [...]
“I blame cartoons and movies with perpetuating the myth that roosters crow only at dawn.”
“Pullet parenthood is as much of an adventure as child rearing, only with more feces per pound of body weight.”