Recently we had our first broody hen. As you can see in the picture, she is flattened down in one of our nesting boxes. She refused to move, and complained when we went near her, though she did get out of the...

Our 8 hens are laying more eggs than we can eat. This may not go on forever… one of the girls is broody now. So I decided to try freezing whole eggs in our freezer, for use in the coming months, even up...

We’ve recently been having a few five-egg days. That’s from eight hens who were baby chicks back in June. They, and their rooster, are doing amazingly well in the bitterly cold weather we’ve...

Our solitary baby chick did just fine in the days after we got her. She’s a golden colored Buff Orpington and we’ve named her Sunshine. I wrote about her beginnings with us already. Here you can...

We are living with one baby chicken. We didn’t plan it that way but the other chicks traveling with her did not survive. I had ordered nine, and she was the only survivor of what our shipper  told me...

When I was in the feed store the other, there was a copy of Chick Days on their checkout counter. “That’s a fun book,” I said to the clerk and she smiled and agreed. I didn’t buy it, as...