Natural Chicken Keeping

I have plenty of great blog posts in my head, but until I get all my illustrations done, they'll have to stay in my head. So instead,...

Well - this post would have come out much sooner, but due to a glitch with Blogger, the entire post was erased when I was trying to post i...

What a fun and crazy weekend I have had! Ever since my husband lost his job and my youngest became home-bound for fear she might catch th...

I have been seriously, ridiculously, over-the-top busy working on chicken breed artwork for GRIT Magazine 's 2015 Guide to Backyard Chi...

Fall is the best time to plant garlic - specifically just after the first frost. If you live in Australia, please flip this post upside ...

In today's episode of You Show Me Yours and I'll Show You Mine... Of course as you may know, we are hosting our first ever  Onlin...

While my husband diligently searches for a job and my flock muddles its way through a molt, we have found ourselves in a position where we ...

Are you considering getting a flock of guineas? (Do you have masochistic tendencies?) Guinea fowl are commonly used to control tick ...

Molting season is upon us, and with it comes a reduction in egg production and possibly some raggedy-looking chickens. In th...

Yesterday I tried something I have never done before. I took one of my Swedish Flower Hen pullets to a poultry show at a county ...

My family had been renting the century-old farmhouse on a beautiful horse farm (partially pictured in the header) since June of 2012. We...

We speak highly of free ranging on this blog. There are so many benefits for the chickens and for your feed bills, but the truth of the ma...

One thing that many non-chicken people don't know is that every chicken has its own personality. Right from the start that personality ...

Let me start by saying that if you are an animal rights activist or don't believe that animals should be killed for meat, this post i...

Here's the story, Of a lovely lady, Who was sitting on 2 very lovely eggs. both of them were Swedish Flower, Like their mother, Th...

*** Warning - this blog post contains graphic materials. *** Yesterday as my husband and I were working on a new run for our young floc...

~ By: Christine Myers Just last week, I was standing in my yard, looking at my favorite pullet, feeling sure I’d have to euthanize...

Just chillin' (with) my meat birds.  So there's something you don't hear every day. In this day and age of factory farmi...

~ By Karen I hatch a LOT of eggs – generally more than a thousand annually. Over the years I have had a great deal of luck with th...