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Category Archives: Wyandotte

Pepper, we salute you

You may recall that Pepper was injured when a raccoon horribly attacked our chickens. Well, yesterday she didn’t return from foraging with the other chickens. It’s tragic. She seemed to be doing well but we all know the injured animal is always a prime target. She could have been caught by just about anything and [...]

Saying Goodbye

If you’ve been reading, you know that a couple of days ago three of our beloved chickens were taken or killed by a raccoon. It’s caused huge insecurities in all of our chickens but they seem to be recovering slowly. Pepper was even injured and is limping around due to a broken toe.
Probably because I’m sick [...]

A chick by any other name

So my wife and I put our selves to the task of naming all of our chicks. We tried with the first batch but it was hard. Some of those were being grown for the purpose of eating them and so we couldn’t name them anything too touchy feely or serious - since we would [...]