A recent and new win for us was that we successfully hatched our first French Toulouse goose in an incubator this year. We called her Couscous the Goosegoose. She had a crazy sideways smile (scissor beak) and a long left arm (angel wing) and was sweet as Farley’s Key Lime pie (always a win!)
Read moreBe Careful What You Wish For
Last year I was doing a little tractor work for a friend and had to stop in my tracks several times for mother hens and their chicks. To the owner’s frustration, two free-range hens decided to sneak off and hatch out clutches of fluffy cuteness. It was a welcome intermission to a dusty job, and I found myself growing envious of their self-sufficiently reproductive chickens. Thou shalt not covet they neighbors chickens!
Read moreThe Birds and the Bees
There’s tired, and there’s “can’t do another dang thing” tired. We just experienced our craziest week at Star & Sparrow, other than the first real snow, and it left me begging for mercy. Mostly, it all boiled down to birds and bees.
Read moreThe Next Generation
I sometimes refer to myself as a chicken mom, and I can now extend that naming protocol to proud chicken grandma. Last month, we witnessed the first hatching of eggs from our own hens.
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