February 3, 2011 The Girls are Back in Business Our five girls are back in business. After a productive first year we hit some bumps in the road and the hens slowed down….
January 6, 2011 Rosie the Hen Has Passed Away We’ve lost one of our beloved hens. She acted a bit lethargic for the past week but continued to eat and drink and get…
January 4, 2011 New Year in the Chicken Coop It has been an eventful holiday season in the ole chicken coop. Heavy rains along the coast brought unexpected flooding. We live on a…
December 22, 2010 California Rains & Wet Hens Oh Yukk! The hens’ run is a mess! We’ve had light rain for seven days straight and the ground is saturated. Most of the…
December 17, 2010 Molting Hens=No Eggs One of my sons checks in on my hens on occasion. He emailed me to say the I hadn’t posted anything lately. I answered…
November 25, 2010 California Wild Turkey We have a lovely flock of wild turkeys that walk by our house each day. They roost in the trees in the “open space”…
October 20, 2010 Egg Shells-Calcium for Hens When our sweet Buff Orpington, Daisy, was sick last summer, I was given some very practical advice by Brigitte Kessler-lichtensteiger, a chicken rancher in…
September 18, 2010 A Dog Joins the Chickens I’ve not had time to sit down and write. Our new labradoodle has kept me running. We have become “guardians” of a pretty little female…
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…
July 6, 2010 Fourth of July and Visits With Hens We had visitors over the Fourth of July weekend. On our agenda was playing in the sand and water at San Simeon Beach, peeking…
June 21, 2010 Hencam – Getting a Better Webcam View There are two Panasonic cameras on the hens. We’ve been working on moving the outdoor camera the last few days, trying to find the…
June 7, 2010 Rosie’s Pecked Head-Bottom of Pecking Order Rosie is balding. She’s been been getting the feathers picked off her head for some time now. Poor Rosie. She is at the bottom…
May 23, 2010 “Broody” or “Setting” Hens We are putting buckets in the nest at 4:00 p.m. each day after the hens have finished laying their eggs. After 21 days…
April 22, 2010 Chickens Eat My Garden Because I have six hens and love to garden, people often ask,”Are chickens and gardens compatible?” My answer is, except for cleaning up bugs…
