Total Survivalist Libertarian Bitch Fest

This is one of the chicks I hatched last year. I only got two out of that bunch and they both ended up being roosters. Too bad, I was rea...

   When I was in Utah last week, I bought a dozen fertile eggs to hatch in my incubator. I also gathered eggs from my hens over the next ...

 Actually, he has known them since they were all hatched. They are all new to our flock though. I got them from the same lady who gave me M...

I am so totally over winter. Not that we have had much of a winter or anything, I am just ready for spring. Spring usually comes late to the...

Yes, that is me. I am sorry. I have been crazy busy the last few...umm...months...? My boys started school and I stupidly thought this would...

Meet Mr Chicken. We found someone to adopt my murderous rooster and my hen molesting duck. My hens got this strapping bird in exchange. Mr. ...

Fact #1 A hen will sometimes kick a newborn chick out of the nest if it is a different color then she is. Fact #2 A newborn chick can fa...

Twitchy is eating and drinking by herself! I thought I was going to have to dropper feed her forever. Her little tan friend here has taken h...

Twitchy was attacked by my rooster on Tuesday. He put his beak through her brain. I was there when it happened and saw her die. An hour late...

Remember the chicks I got last year? They are now big and laying eggs every day. I also bought 5 more chicks this year. That should give me ...

I have a hen who has gone broody (for those of you unfamiliar with chickens, this means she is mean as a rattlesnake and probably more prone...

Ok so I know I have been pretty absent (ok, totally absent for quite some time, but who's getting technical here?), but there has simply...

Well, our rooster has been having a few problems. The first one is his early morning crowing. I think I have this one solved though. He w...

The coop is complete! It has six nest boxes that I can access from the outside, a roost near the roof for safe sleeping and a slatted floor...

So my little springtime chickens are rapidly outgrowing their pen. Ok, I lied, they outgrew it a long time ago. But the point is, I need to ...

As of Memorial Day, I no longer have chickens in my garage! Hooray! Brett the Logger lives on a couple acres in a part of town fondly called...

Firstly, I'd like to say Poachy was a good little chicken. Fairly quiet, minded her own business and wasn't one of my master's ...

If you couldn't tell (or didn't read) the quote of the day yesterday, I finally got baby chicks. A friend of mine (who shall be henc...

Ryan the 2L: Are they done yet? I'm hungry. Me: No. Ryan the 2L: Why not? Me: They aren't insta-grow food. Ryan the 2L: Are they...