mangofeet

Maybe while we're waiting for real chicks, I should make some of these... Pattern here. Photo and pattern from Myrtle & Eunic...

We currently have no chickens.  This feels odd, since we've had chickens for years and years and years. Something scared away and/or ki...

Well, the hinges on the door seem a bit rusty, and there's definitely a lot of dust on the windowsills, but I'll get the blog shipsh...

No sign of any lambs. No sign of any weasels. One of those statements makes me happier than the other, of course. The chicks are growin...

Another sign of spring is when we do this: It was really hard to get a picture, since they all move so fast.  This year's ch...

And how did it get to be September already... So, what have I got to show for the summer? Here's the sum total of the knitting I got...

I've been so caught up with the shenanigans of the sheep this summer, that I've been remiss in reporting on the turkeys and the Blac...

I had big plans for today.  I was going to take pictures of lambs and write a lovely post describing their latest shenanigans.  (At least th...

Our chicks and baby turkeys arrived yesterday.  What were we thinking...  We've got 50 Cornish-X, though 20 of them will be going rig...

The pullets are nosing ahead again... Yes, that's four (count them, four!) pullets standing outside the coop door, trying to figure ou...

Too tired to post. We butchered the last of the second batch of meatbirds today - twenty-some of the little blimpoids. (We were victims of...

One morning, shortly after we got the last batch of meatbirds, Madman came in from morning chores and asked, "Have you noticed one of t...

It's been a week since any of the pullets have gotten out of their pen! (Stupid chickens...)

I'll be going on Sunday - anyone else? (And for the record - still finding two or three pullets out every. single. morning. It's im...

Bullwinkle had it right in her comment on my last post. I'm starting to wonder just who is the thwarter and who is the thwartee. (Or ...

Madman opened the coop's outside door this morning, figuring the pullets had had long enough to acclimate to their new digs. When I left...

Madman just came in from capturing the last of the pullets and moving her to the main chicken coop with everyone else. He'd nabbed most...

Yesterday was the big day for doing in the first batch of meat birds, and since I've had requests for documenting the process (mostly ...

Yeehaw! To tumultuous cheers and a hail of confetti (which was actually just a bunch of wood shavings that I'm still trying to vacuum up...

Hey, it's finally spring up here! For certain definitions of spring. That doesn't mean we won't get another snow or two before...