The Chicken Mama

Good Grief! What Next?

On Saturday…there was chicken blood. AGAIN! One of Cleopatra’s toenails somehow almost got torn off. Ethel’s comb accident somewhat prepared me for the blood that wouldn’t stop gushing from the wound, but still, two injuries in two weeks? No fair!…

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Filed Under: Chickens

Enough Cold Weather Already!

I’m trying. I really am. But I’m completely exhausted attempting to put some kind, ANY kind of good spin on this dreadful winter weather we’re continuing to experience. Single digit days, sub-zero nights. Snow, snow and more snow. I despise …

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Filed Under: Around the Barnyard

Oh No! Injuries In The Barnyard!

If there’s one profession that I would never, ever be able to support myself doing, it would be nursing. I would be on food stamps and living in public housing because I have not a single skill set that nursing …

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Filed Under: Around the Barnyard, Chickens, Doink and The Goats

Egg, Egg…Who’s Got The Egg?

Sometimes, for me, writing a post is hard to come by. My rule is to be true to my animals. I don’t make these stories up. They are told to me by my four-legged (and in the case of chickens, …

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Filed Under: Keela

But It Itches!

Of all the things to scratch your head on, you choose my LEG?

Sometimes I wonder what goes on inside their heads. I’m out there in the barnyard and I look over and something odd is going on. It happens …

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Filed Under: Around the Barnyard, Doink and The Goats

One Year Already?

Well, I missed it. Yep. It flew right past without so much as a one-handed clap.

This little blog turned a year old – eleven days ago.

As anyone who knows me well will tell you, I’m not a sentimental …

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Filed Under: Mostly Human

I’ve Created A Goat Monster

Oh, sometimes things simply don’t go the way you planned. Sometimes they’re a little wrong, sometimes they veer WAY off course. This is one of those WAY off course tales.

To start this tale, you need to know I wear …

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Filed Under: Doink and The Goats