A nice soft bedding is needed for your ladies for a wonderful sleep and happy dreams (chickens really do dream!). My first instinct was to get cedar shavings but found out it can be toxic to chickens! It can give off ‘fumes’ that may kill some parasites but can affect chickens respiratory system enough to …
I started discovering one of my chickens had soft shelled eggs that gave her trouble laying eggs. Through some digging I found we had an antidote from our very own chickens….their EGGS! It’s the eggshells that has calcium for your chickens to lay strong quality eggs. There are quite a few different ways you can …
What is Dust Bathing? Unlike us humans, chickens bathe with dirt. Sure as a kid, I’d jump in dirt, building mud castles but those days are over. For chickens it’s a ritual, a cleansing ritual that’s almost meditative for them. When chickens start to feel dirty they begin digging around themselves picking up loose dirt …
From left to right is Laura, Little Foot, Elena and Maya. They came to us at the age of about 10 months old. The original care takers could no longer keep them due to their HOA rules. Rules smules who needs them, luckily we don’t have rules like that and our neighbors don’t …
When I started to have chickens, it inspired me to grow an herb garden. In a way this ended up both physically and mentally good for all of us. Little by little our garden has grown as our chickens have through out the years. As we have seen these herbs thrive and the chickens interact …
