There are two ways you can buy baby chicks at the feed store. “Straight run” means they haven’t been sexed, and the likelihood of getting a rooster is 60%. “Sexed” means a professional has decided on its gender, and the margin of error is 2–10%. So when hubby brought home a white chick he called…
Yesterday my husband was in the feed store to pick something up, and saw that the brooding pen for the latest shipment of chicks was empty. “No more chicks this year?” he asked. The clerk jerked a thumb around the corner. “No, there’s a couple left. They’re in the Ugly box.” The Ugly box. Where…
“On Monday, Farmer Greenstalk dropped his watch down the well … Who will come to the rescue? Would you believe … chickens? Believe it! The amazing chickens on the Greenstalk farm race to help various family members every day of the week … every day until Sunday, that is, when Emily Greenstalk has a little…
Here in California, we have two seasons: rainy season and fire season. Where the edges of those two meet, you have spring and fall, but only briefly, before you get to the main event, both of which last for months. This year, though, we seem to have dispensed with winter and are having a nice…
I’ve been rescuing chickens for ten years, but even now I make mistakes. Witness poor Millie. She was molting for the first time and feeling pretty miserable, so at bedtime I put her up on the “safety platform,” which is just a glorified storage shelf, above where the other birds roost. Since Millie is low…