Category Archives: chickens

Baracka Figures It Out

Posted on April 7, 2009 by jkmcintyre


After discovering the eggs under the porch last week, I feverishly read BackYardChickens for advice about how to get our chicken to lay her eggs in the nest box. First I thought: I built the boxes wrong. So I read a hundred posts on nest boxes and no two were alike (ground-level vs. raised; dim vs. bright; indoor vs. out; roost vs. ramp; from dresser drawers or milk crates lying on the ground to fancy colourful built-ins up next to a roost). Continue reading →

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Winter life at our small urban homestead

Posted on February 13, 2009 by jkmcintyre

Our first eggs! Well, our first ceramic eggs (psych!), newly minted from my studio. They go in the nest boxes cause chickens are very vulnerable to peer pressure. Other ceramics projects this winter: Rattling Egg Men. They’re eggs! They’ve faces! … Continue reading →

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Ostentatious Oeufs

Posted on January 30, 2009 by jkmcintyre

Now that the nest boxes are in place, I’m anxious that our hens (we’re still hoping for no crowers) lay eggs in them, and not random corners in the coop (or heaven forbid outdoors!). To encourage them to lay in … Continue reading →

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Snow in Seattle

Posted on December 16, 2008 by jkmcintyre

SNOW! Yes, in SEATTLE! It happens once a year, sometimes just for one day or night. Saturday temperatures dropped to below freezing and snow fell in lovely fat flakes through the night. For an easterner like me, it was heavenly … Continue reading →

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