Blogs about: Backyard Chickens
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Letter to a coyote
Dear Coyote, Do not mess with a woman with PMS and a gun, even if it is a bb gun. Just some advice from a cranky mama who had a bad day. Please pass this on to any other predators of chickens and/or c… more →
A Hippy Girl in the Country
The Newness in the Darkness
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6512 and growing wrote 2 days ago: Even in this dark time, there is newness here at the urban homestead. The Rice Table It’s winter a … more →
Jumping on the "backyard chickens" bandwagon?
Sue Weigand wrote 5 days ago: Clarington residents will have to wait until sometime in the New Year to find out if they can jump o … more →
The First
Huck wrote 1 week ago: I’ve been chiding myself for having counted my eggs before they were hatched laid. I was sure … more →
How to Share a Chicken (or Two)
newurbanhabitat wrote 2 weeks ago: Shareable.net published my article about the Eastside Egg Cooperative in Portland, Oregon. It begins … more →
Woke up, fell out of bed and now we have chickens
hotsuburbanchick wrote 2 weeks ago: So, today was the day that we became parents to 4 more critters. We went to meet Dan, Dan the Chicke … more →
Backyard chickens -- pets or livestock?
thebovine wrote 3 weeks ago: This is an excerpt from a recent post by Charlotte on The Ethicurean blog: Backyard chickens don … more →
Score 1 for the chickens
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6512 and growing wrote 3 weeks ago: Presenting…Little Chicken, Little Buddy, Emily and Lily. Perhaps if I had grown up on a farm these c … more →
Hen Diaries: Tales from a fledgling fowl keeper (Weeks 20-29)
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newurbanhabitat wrote 3 weeks ago: Emily It’s the first week of October and something is up with Emily. The hens usually wander a … more →
What homestead?
Sara wrote 4 weeks ago: Recently I’ve been feeling as if I don’t even have a clue about what is going on with th … more →
Silkie - he/she?
Sharon wrote 1 month ago: Buck Buck, our Silkie pullet, did not start laying eggs with the rest of the girls back in August. O … more →
baby chickens
downtownfarm wrote 1 month ago: The first real step towards urban farm life comes at the affordable price of $2.50 a chick at Alamo … more →
vancouver is one step closer to backyard chickens!
punkybee wrote 1 month ago: Great news on the backyard chicken front – Vancouver’s draft hen bylaw is ready for publ … more →
Thank you, Hen!
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Sara wrote 1 month ago: We finally got an egg from one of our hens. It suspect it’s from the black hen, Star. I loove … more →
In depth land trust ideas
Sara wrote 1 month ago: Sorry about yesterday’s post, it was an attempt at a really condensed form of a big idea. Real … more →
Respect Your Hens: Diseases Turning Up in Urban Chickens
John wrote 1 month ago: Of all people skeptical of the backyard chicken fad, I’m sure I come across as an unlikely one … more →
El Pollo Loco
troydowning wrote 1 month ago: Feeding the Girls We’ve been talking about adding chickens to the farm for a couple of years n … more →
Chickens or Prohibited
blissstreetstudios wrote 1 month ago: I’ve recently been reading Made from Scratch by Jenna Woginrich, a wonderful book about findin … more →
four ladies
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crystaltillman wrote 1 month ago: they chase the dog, let you know exactly what they think, and are quite curious beings. our chicken … more →
Our First Egg!
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newurbanhabitat wrote 2 months ago: If you’ve been following the Hen Diaries, you’ve watched our four sweet little chicks tu … more →
