When we had acreage or chickens and other poultry would free range through the orchards.  After moving to town our chickens used to free ran...

We bred silkie chickens in the past.  They are a lovely breed of chicken.  When we moved to acreage we decided to get a larger dual purpose ...

Chinese silkie chicken is a healthy meat that is often consumed in Asia.  It has very little fat, is high in B vitamins and extraordinarily...

I killed our first Plymouth Rock rooster 16 June 2012.  He hatched out 15 November 2011 and was so much smaller than the others that I ex...

I was meticulously recording egg statistics (among other things) for our hens every day. On average our plymouth rocks laid 221 eggs per...

We have our first little baby chickens. Such a cute little things. We didn't have great success with our first attempts at an incubator...

Our first ducklings. Isn't this one a cutie. We decided we would do a bit of an experiment with this broody duck. Since we have chooks w...