I'm quite choked about this. After keeping all 52 chicks alive for three weeks, I accidentally dropped the heat lamp and it landed on one of the layer chicks, mortally wounding it. Katie was with me so I had to be cool and collected, but had I been … [Read more...]

O.K. we are still waiting for word on the permit for the earthship.However, we had our first health crisis in the poultry brooder.I was returning from my nightly bicycle ride (southbound on Hwy 5 up the north side of the Darfield hill) and upon … [Read more...]

Our chicks came today ( march 19th 2009) and no I don't mean dudes' girlfriends, I mean little baby "girl" chickens.We were only supposed to get 25 layers and 25 meat birds, (yum!!) but we were lucky enough to get a few extra "to experiment with," … [Read more...]