Milkweed & Teasel

We have our first sitter of the season - Our little Japanese bantam has taken possession a clutch of eight eggs, laid by other bantam hen...

Parsnips. Some for lunch - roasted - and some for soup - curried I spent my Sunday morning digging up the last of our overwintered (read f...

I'll get to the chickens in a minute, but first a lambing update. Ewe 2844 gave birth to a single ewe last Thursday - It was as big a...

The season is changing. BBC news tells me that September 1st is the official start of autumn, but I have more reliable sources. The horses a...

We've had a big chicken delivery: 14 ex-caged layers (our rescues) and 30 plump white meat chicks. We'll keep five of the layers f...

This week has been all about death and poop - not mine, I assure you. I warn you now that there is no happy ending, so feel free to skip the...

I shot this in a hen house at 2.30 this morning - It's only one of this year's cubs, but already old enough to be out by itself d...

Ten buff orpington chicks hatched in the incubator. I fostered 2 under the pekin hen - And 8 chicks under a buff hen - It seems an unf...

Spring is nearly here, the signs are everywhere. The blossom is falling off the blackthorn trees, and the bluebells are flowering. Vixens ha...

Thank you to everyone for all the great and funny name suggestions. I will be referring to your list to name our future dogs for years to co...

The 2011 Egg Season is officially open - I repurposed a broody coop, adding legs and painting a blackboard sign on its front, to make an ...

I'm sorry that I've been incommunicado for a few weeks. It's not because I've run out of rambling stories to share with you ...