I recently noticed obvious signs that something was killing the hens in our new flock of Americauna layers and thought it must me some kind of large raptor. How else would the perpetrator get over the four-foot-tall electric fence surrounding the chickens and their coop if not with wings? There were lots of feathers indicating […]
It was time to move the animals to fresh pasture and I found Tigger, our boy goat, rolling his head around in the grass. Apparently, he’d found something especially smelly he thought would impress his lady friends in our flock of sheep and snagged a bunch of it with his horns. When he finally came […]
For the past four months, we’ve been raising Rhode Island Red hens to replace the layers that were snatched by foxes in the spring. Like the broilers we raise, these new hens have been traveling around our pastures in big cages or “tractors” toward a date when they would be big enough to join the […]
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