Life on the Farm
You would think chicken eggs should hatch 50% pullets (females) and 50% cockerels (males). Anyone who has hatched or bought chicks knows that the gender ratio of as-hatched chicks, otherwise known as straight-run, is rarely 50/50. One year I hatched...
Remembering to go out every night to close the chicken coop door became a huge chore after we moved our chickens one-eighth of a mile from the house. And then we built another coop even farther away. In winter it...
Before chicken keeping became a craze, and the oddball is now the person who doesn’t have chickens, people often asked me how I got into raising chickens. The major influence was my maternal grandmother, who kept a flock of Rhode...
If I hadn’t arrived in time to witness the event, I would never have known how my Marans rooster died.
