Chickens
These are all the posts in the “chickens” category.
In a similar vein to the silliness earlier in the week….
(A chicken-related parody of #FirstWorldProblems inspired by boiling too fresh eggs for our egg mayo lunch.) My eggs are too fresh to make good-hard boiled eggs today. #ChickenOwnerProblems The recipe calls for one medium egg but I only have extra-large and larger. #ChickenOwnerProblems I have too many eggs to fit in my egg holder. #ChickenOwnerProblems [...]
My Twitter feed today has been full of nearly squished chickens, roofs flying off sheds, greenhouses half blown away and house roof damage but despite living near a lot of very tall trees, this was the extent of the damage we experienced in yesterday/last night’s gales: Because we live next to woodland, wind always sounds [...]
Since we’re not big sprout eaters in this house, our chickens hadn’t tried them before this week. I got a big bag of them reduced to just pennies at the supermarket nearly closing time the other day and thought I’d offer them up to the girls as a leafy treat. “Hmmm? What is that crazy [...]
Since we’d offed one of their species on Saturday, I decided to do a nice thing for our chickens on Sunday – I roofed part of their run. I’d been meaning to do it for a while and had earmarked the polycarbonate sheets that had been the roof of our porch for the project – [...]
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(WARNING: I’ve included a couple of in-progress pictures towards the end of this post and I’ve been very careful to pick ones that look little different to a bird you’d find at the supermarket. However, if you’re very sensitive, you might want to skip this article.) We killed and dressed/butchered a chicken for the first [...]
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