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 [...]
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 [...]