No, sorry, nope, no. Nobody wins. What’s in the box? Why, a rooster, of course! What else would you keep in a toilet box in your laundry room? Sheesh! Thereby hangs a tale. The rooster’s name is Absalom, and he’s a beautiful Buff Brahma bantam bubbling with bluster and bursting with bouyant bravado. So much …

So much for chicks being born at Easter. So much for chicks being a cute fluffy yellow. Jess went down to the duck yard yesterday afternoon and –well, looky here! The kids are so excited they’re jumping out of their skin. We’re not even sure whose chicks these are since we have three breeds of …

Well, I’ve decided to post three days a week for now, instead of posting every day I’m at work. There still seems to be plenty of material to write about, and I’ve gone far past the July deadline when I thought I’d run out of interesting projects. But my life is pretty busy, and I …

Thank goodness for neighbors. Actually, Diana lives an hour away, but she was getting rid of her chickens (I got the last two, actually) and while I was there she decided to get rid of her chicken stuff. So on Monday night when I came home with two Production Reds in a cardboard box in …

It’s been pretty warm around here. If you live in Tucson or Manhattan you have my condolences, but “pretty warm” for us is above 90 degrees, with 70% humidity or higher. Our SIP house stays delightfully cool, and when it’s hot I’d rather be inside. We leave all the windows wide open all night, and …

Out of our six new laying hens, this is the one (according to Jessica) that has the most personality. She calls her the Little Red Hen, or, in our acronymphilic household, the LRH. The day after they arrived last week, instead of staying cooped up (pun intended) in her chicken yard, the LRH promptly explored …

First there was the drawing. This is how all my projects start. No, actually they start with reading something or talking to Jess* about a need. This one started with the fact that the kids don’t like to eat duck eggs if they can recognize them (scrambled or as part of a recipe? Fine), and …