Lacking a bust of Pallas, Ruby just climbs up on the nearest child and starts squawking ”Nevermore.”

Here at the end of our third week as suburban chicken farmers, we’re finding that our little fuzzy McNuggets are turning into, well … chickens.  They’re getting longer necks, sprouting feathers in odd places, and starting to do that freaky little chicken walk thing. They’re still small enough to be in their crate in the [...]

Here at the end of our first full week of being suburban chicken farmers, we still walk about in a daze saying, “Whatzat? We have chickens. How did we get chickens?” They are strangely easy to care for and quite charming. We’re still researching coop designs, but we have about 5 weeks left until they [...]