The Chicken Mama

Hello? Chicks? Where Are You?

Last weekend I spent time getting the new chicken shed (I call it the shed so as not to confuse it with the old coop) all ready for the new generation of chickens. I love the shed. It’s just the …

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Filed Under: Around the Barnyard, Chickens

Oh, fall is approaching. You can feel it too, can’t you? The days are noticeably shorter. My hoodie is required for morning feeding now. Today, after a rainstorm yesterday, the morning temperature was in the 40s. Oh my.

Doink is

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Filed Under: Mostly Human

More Baby Chicks Grow Up

Well, hello! I’ve been away for a while. My beach vacation was fun – full of family and sun and fried food and beer and toes in the water and long walks. I am a simple girl. It made me …

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Filed Under: Around the Barnyard, Chickens

The Chicken Mama On Vacation

I’m gonna be out for a week. I’m on the beach. Recharging my batteries.

Book. Beer. Beach. End of story.

Regardless of the fun, I still miss the barnyard animals. So we created Doink out of sand. Thank you Beth …

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Filed Under: Doink and The Goats, Mostly Human

The Barnyard Poop Patrol

There are three things I do every day in the barnyard. Feed my animals, love my animals, and pick up my animals’ poop.

Some days I build things. Some days I repair things that are broken. Some days I scrub …

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Filed Under: Around the Barnyard, Doink and The Goats

Surprise In The Pasture

We are so lucky to have county-owned open space behind our house. We’ll never have neighbors back there. Except animals. And we love having animals for neighbors.

When we first moved in, horses roamed those acres. We fed them carrots …

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Filed Under: Mostly Human