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Tikka came home from the feed store as a chick a few days old. She was meant as a companion to Betty, who had been relegated to the Ugly Box, much to my softhearted DH’s distress. Because chickens are flock birds and you can’t just have one lonely bird in a box until it’s time…
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Mimosa and Tetrazzini, the latter an 8-month-old crested Silkie and the former a nearly two-year-old noncrested one, came to me courtesy of a friend who wanted Silkie eggs for their healthful properties, but didn’t know how to manage chicken keeping with the five Golden Retrievers in the house. Talk about irreconcilable differences! So I made her…
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Folks who believe that animals and birds don’t have feelings and emotions are just not paying attention. Witness Rhoda and Millie, my Rhode Island Red hens. Rhoda was a rescue from a lady who was becoming debilitated and could no longer look after her birds. Millie was a rescue, too, found by my husband on…
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A recent ad on Craigslist went something like this: “Ugly Betty, our rescue chick, finally showed its true sexuality…..Now Handsome Benny has a new dilemma. Its new foster parents have decided to split the bedsheets (divorce) and have decided not to bring him home to a hostile environment. Now I’m begging for new foster parents…
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USA Today bestselling author Shelley Adina has written more than 50 novels published by Harlequin, Warner, Hachette, and Moonshell Books, Inc., her own independent press. She writes steampunk adventure and mystery; as Adina Senft, writes women’s fiction set among the Amish and other plain communities; and as Charlotte Henry, writes classic Regency romance. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University in the UK. She won the Romance Writers of America RITA Award® for Best Inspirational Novel in 2005, was a finalist in 2006, and in 2009 was a Christy Award finalist. When she’s not writing, Shelley is usually quilting, sewing historical costumes, or enjoying the garden with her flock of rescued chickens.
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