What to do When Your Chicken Dies
What to do When Your Chicken Dies Yeah, so….my brother-in-law’s dog, Tosca, came to visit yesterday and she wound up killing one of our chickens, a beautiful and sweet natured girl named Omelette....
View ArticleSpring Online Gardening Reading
I’m poppin’ up all over the place lately, and I didn’t even plan it this way! As a writer, I simply hand in things when my editors say they need them, and wait (im)patiently until they are published....
View ArticleHens Laying Rubber Eggs?
Are your hens laying odd eggs? We now have 21 hens and 2 roosters at Berkeley Farm, and, for the most part our hens lay pretty predictably — we consistently have anywhere from 5-15 eggs a day...
View ArticleFertilized Chicken Eggs
Fertilized Chicken Eggs So….we have 22 chickens, 20 of them hens and 2 roosters. All different breeds, but no mixes. One of our roosters is a Bantam frizzle, and even though he’s full grown, Thor isn’t...
View ArticleChicken Coops 101
Three years ago, in February of 2012, the Hunky Foreman and I decided we wanted chickens. Well, he’d wanted chickens for a really long time, and I finally buckled under. We didn’t know anything about...
View ArticleHow To Introduce A New Chicken into the Flock
See this big boy? He’s our new rooster. He doesn’t have a name yet. We got him very unexpectedly yesterday because one of our crew members got him as a gift for Brett at a flea market on the east side....
View ArticleMy Rooster Has Fowl Pox!
Chickens are really pretty easy to raise and care for, but there are a few illnesses that they are prone to. Take fowl pox, for example — our first round of chickens all got it, some worse than others,...
View ArticleHen Saddles
So what? What on earth are hen saddles and why would you need one? Well, you wouldn’t but one of your hens might. Hen saddles are padded fabric covers that go over a hen’s back and fit under her wings...
View ArticleIs My Chicken a Hen and a Rooster?
We have a funny little hen named Sister Brigid (that’s the patron saint of chicken farmers). She’s one of three Kraienköppes that we have, and she’s always been an odd bird. She’s definitely the...
View ArticleOur Urban Farm: Why We Do It
We live on one acre in urban Austin — we’re a quirky South Austin neighborhood that apparently used to be out on the fringe of the city back in the day, but the city has since grown up around us. So,...
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