Author: Nerdbilly


  • Flock Re-org.

    It’s a gorgeous sunny day – we’ll be reaching highs in the 50’s today.  Our little handicapped Welsummer hen has been getting increasingly lonely and bored in the brooder cage, so we decided we’d try putting her out in the coop today. We’ve also been concerned about waiting for too long and having issues with…

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  • Poor little gimpy leg chick

    Poor little gimpy leg chick

    When we moved the chickens to the outdoor coop on 21 February, we made the sad discovery that one of our little Welsummer hens had injured her leg and was limping around pitifully. We kept her in the brooder cage in order to allow her to recuperate, as we suspect it is a sprain, and…

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  • Our Chickens

    Our Chickens

    In January 2010, we experienced The Chickening. That is to say, we brought home twenty peeping fuzzballs that had been hatched four days earlier and introduced them into their new home, a brooder house that we built in our basement. They’ve grown considerably in the following weeks, and have been outside in their coop since…

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