Tag: rooster

  • The Rooster is Crowing

    The Rooster is Crowing

    It’s raining and dark but the rooster is crowing knowing the light will come. There was a large moon even waning it looked full but now the rooster crows.

  • What Kind of Chicken is That?

    Will they be good layers? I have to admit I am still a chicken breeding virgin, and it seems like the more I learn about chicken breeding the less I understand. Three things are certain. They eat and drink and sh*t.

  • Today’s the Day

    Today’s the Day

    Eight to ten weeks after that we will start eating our own organic chicken meat and I will finally feel like our rooster is earning his keep around here!

  • About that Incubator

    About that Incubator

    My idea of what’s natural is pretty half baked when it comes to chickens. We’re in a compromised situation. In 2016 there is hardly such a thing as a “natural” chicken, that would just “naturally” sit on her eggs until they hatch.

  • Our First Egg

    “Well you should have eggs by now,” said the cashier. That’s what I was thinking. We’ve fed and watered them, cleaned up after them, and laughed at them too, for five months. But I was standing there at the register, like a virgin, having heard plenty of talk, read and looked at plenty of literature,…

  • Our First Egg

    “Well you should have eggs by now,” said the cashier. That’s what I was thinking. We’ve fed and watered them, cleaned up after them, and laughed at them too, for five months. But I was standing there at the register, like a virgin, having heard plenty of talk, read and looked at plenty of literature,…