The fall weather is upon us. The days are getting shorter and nights are getting cooler. Since chickens can’t see well in the dark, they

After erecting a chicken coop we inherited from a professional structural engineer, I was so excited. This coop is built so well and is perfect

Have you ever heard the phrase “One bad apple spoils the bunch”?  Have you ever thought about why that is?  I mean, if all the other apples

If you have spent much time with me, you will know that I love to create things, but I’m not too artistic.  I have this mental

Where will we be 10 years from now?, I asked my husband.  It’s a question we discuss frequently.  We are no longer spring chickens (well, I still

Almost every day when I drive down my driveway past the neighbor’s pasture, I see their goat with the floppy ears hanging out with the

When I walk up to the chicken coop, my rooster, Sven, makes a certain sound. It is his way of notifying the flock to “pay

Those of you who know me know how much I love process.  I graduated from college with a degree in chemical engineering and took off to become

An Interesting Response When I was first thinking about getting chickens, I would ask other chicken owners how many chickens they had. Strangely, the answer