Category Archives: chicken coop / run

Broody Hen

Posted on April 6, 2012 by jkmcintyre
[caption id="attachment_1505" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Calamity Jane, our Dark Brahma, went broody in February"][/caption]

My young hen Calamity Jane sits in the nest box. She has done very little else for weeks now. She spends the day in there when the other chickens are out having dirt baths and fighting over the compost pile. She spends the night in there when the other chickens are sleeping on the roost. She makes distraught cluck-cluck-cluck sounds when we force her off the nest. There is no doubt about it – she is broody… Continue reading →

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Chicken Forage Experiment

Posted on June 30, 2011 by jkmcintyre

Confined in the side yard during the past year, our chickens had scratched their way to a barren wasteland.  I decided to try a little chicken-exclusion experiment to re-grow some vegetation, both for them and for aesthetics. Improvising a pen, … Continue reading →

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The Big-Little Chicken Wars (or Introducing New Chickens to the Flock)

Posted on May 20, 2011 by jkmcintyre

First our wee chickens were in the fireplace. Then we took them out to the shed. On warmish, sunny days, we started placing them in a pen so they could learn of Sun and Wind and Grass.

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My Chicken Tractor Train

Posted on May 7, 2011 by jkmcintyre

If you don’t care about your yard, chickens are no problem – you let the chickens do their thing, your yard becomes one giant scratch zone (OK, I’m exaggerating, but only a little), and the chickens are happy. Let’s say, … Continue reading →

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