Tag Archives: Chicken Keeping

The Story of Ping

Posted on May 2, 2010 by

I got plenty done this week. The crew and I planted all of the trees and bushes and two thousand strawberry plants, and without a particle of my help, my Mom and Dad planted a bunch of black raspberries and … Continue reading →

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Miracle Salve, or My Mom, the Chicken Pharmacist

Posted on April 22, 2010 by

Tonight, the girls and I doctored one of our roosters. He’s limping badly but doesn‘t have any discernible injuries to his “drumstick,” so I think he must have bumblefoot, which is a staph infection in the soft tissue of his … Continue reading →

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Fun with raptors

Posted on April 12, 2010 by

Woke up yesterday morning to the sound of my youngest daughter playing with a balloon in the hallway right outside our open bedroom door. Whap! Whap! Whap! Whap!, etc. I asked her to go downstairs Right Now if she was … Continue reading →

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Spring Chickens

Posted on March 1, 2010 by

Today I hauled out last year’s calendar and I see that I heard my first redwing blackbird last year on March 4th.  Right now we’ve got six or so inches of melty, slushy snow which makes me doubt that the … Continue reading →

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