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Renata and the Case of the Bulging Wattles: A Chicken with a Tick Bite

Carra — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 06:00:36 +0000

This story begins with some bad, sad, hard news: in early December we lost one of our two sweet tiny twins to an in-coop hawk attack. More about “coop maintenance (super hard) lessons learned” to come. This left our sweet Renata a tiny gal, without a tiny pal. Chicken body language can be ambivalent at...

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Trouble at the Henhouse, or Raising Chickens is A Lot

Carra — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 06:00:02 +0000

I have written quite a bit about the triumphs and near losses of raising chickens, but friends, it all exists. The subtitle of this website is “Triumph (and sometimes Trouble) at the Henhouse.” I chose this for two reasons: My favourite Canadian band, The Tragically Hip, released an album in the 90’s called Trouble at...

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Chickens Are Not Gardeners

Carra — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 06:00:55 +0000

Chickens are tiny rototillers. Chickens are lightly domesticated velociraptors. Chickens are annihilators of insecta and annelida—annihilators with hyper-focused intensity. Chickens are not gardeners. Gardening with chickens? Before you read more, may I suggest Metallica’s Seek and Destroy. A chicken’s mission is to gobble up every bug, worm, grub, leaf, fruit, and whatever other nourishment it...

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