July 28, 2020 Can I Have Chickens in My Garden? Before you get chickens, check with your city or county Planning Departments and look for land use ordinances. You can easily go to your county or city websites and do this. Know that you have the space for chickens and a facility that will keep them safe.
January 27, 2010 Designing a Space for Chickens We do not live on a farm, nor do we want to turn over our garden to foraging chickens, so we designed a small…
January 22, 2010 Choosing the Right Breed of Chickens Deciding which breeds of chickens you want for your backyard chicken project is a pretty important decision. There are books and magazine articles on…
March 18, 2014 More about A Coop for the Garden Here are more pictures of our “coop that enhances the garden”. We didn’t take many pictures of it being built. We should have. But these will help you see the inside of the henhouse, the size, and understand the general sequence of the construction process.
“Daisy” is a fluffy Buff Orpington. A big, beautiful blond. Sweet, tame, the first to greet us, the first to be on our laps…
February 4, 2014 Success! Peeling Hard-boiled Fresh Eggs Love those fresh eggs but hate that they’re hard to peel? Years ago, when we got the first six hens, we had more eggs…
December 20, 2012 Silver-laced Wyandotte Passes Away Poppy, our pretty silver-laced Wyandotte died today. I’m not terribly distraught because she died of what I believe is old age. I found…
October 4, 2012 Dog attacked hen. What I learned When I encounter a mishap, I try to learn from it. Most of you who read this blog know that our dear Sweetpea, a…
April 27, 2012 Tulip the Ameraucana Has Passed Away Tulip, the Ameraucana, also called an Easter Egger because she lays green eggs, has been sick for six months now and passed away yesterday…
April 22, 2012 Gophers, Gophers, Everywhere A colony of pocket gophers has set up residence in our yard, and Maddie, the labradoodle decided to expose them. She dug a hole,…
April 12, 2012 Hens Need Their Nails Clipped Our hens needed a manicure. We have to clip the nails of our two labradoodles nearly every month. But with our hens, once a…
August 17, 2010 Update on Daisy-Egg Breaks Inside Hen Several of you have written me concerned about Daisy the hen who had an egg break inside of her. Click here. I have been…
August 3, 2010 Daisy is Ill-Egg Broke Inside Her Daisy had an egg break inside her and it has made her sick. It is hard to know what exactly caused this. Something has…
March 14, 2010 Plant Wildflower Seeds Now I’ve tried to leave the computer and get outside to plant some wildflower seeds this morning. I’ve had the seeds since last year. It’s…
March 1, 2010 March Gardening Along the Central Coast As some of my readers know, I live in a coastal village south of Big Sur and north of San Luis Obispo. I consider…