As you might have discerned from the lack of blogging, Lee and I have been particularly busy lately. Part of the reason is that we’ve been tending our new farm away from home. Truth be told, Lunaria is little more than a swampy yard of heavy clay with some spots of fleeting sunlight. So we felt [...]
Posts Tagged ‘chickens’
The Stoked List
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged chicken tractor, chickens, coffee, ducklings, ducks, food, garden, planting on May 5, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Poultry Care: Figuring It Out as We Go Along
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged brooding, chick starting, chickens, chicks, ducklings, ducks, food, pests on April 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It seems lately, that each time I go for a trip, I come back feeling an increasing urgency to keep up with the demands of spring. It’s not a stressful kind of urgency, but the voice of a season that says in each breath, “Look alive.” This time the excursion was to Brooklyn, to visit [...]
New baby chicks & ducklings!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged brooding, chick starting, chickens, chicks, ducklings, ducks on April 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
… or as Lee likes to call them, “chicklings.”
Chicken Tractor, version 1.0
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ark, building, chicken tractor, chickens, coop on April 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s our new chicken tractor, housing 5 happy hens, built with scrap wood and chicken wire. Even though we move it every day or so, there are many advantages of a chicken tractor over a stationary coop. We don’t have to let them out early in the morning or close them up at night (we get to take vacations!), or clean out a coop, and they mow the lawn. Plus we’ve been letting them scratch at our future garden beds, eating the grass, aerating the soil, and fertilizing with their poops. It’s the portrait of mutual benefit!
