I suppose this has been happening since we had the chickens but we didn’t entirely notice it because there were more of them and everyone, except Clover had another from the same breed, but it seems chickens really prefer to be largely segragated.
Since the Raccoon attack we’ve noticed this more because we now have 3 [...]
Clover is our ugly duckling - or ugly chick. She’s really not a terribly attractive bird like most of the others. For the most part even, she’s plain, completely black except for the white speckling on her face. She’s also HUGE, most of it is very puffy coat of feathers but she’s got quite a [...]
Late each afternoon, after what I suppose is a full day of foraging, eating, sitting, and more eating; chickens like to rest. I think they are building up energy for sunset when they venture into the coop again to fight through their nightly competition for position. Though, even Ronnie seems to take a few minutes [...]
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 [...]