Kill Them With Kindness: How to Make and Use a Killing Cone
December 25, 2010|Comments (12)
Most people choose not to think about how the chicken, turkey, goose, or other winged creature spent its last moments on this earth. In fact, most people don’t want to know anything about the living version of their food and it is that attitude which has allowed corporations to abuse these beautiful animals for decades. But the winds of change are a-blowing and we thought it prudent to show you, our wonderful friends, how and why we make and use a killing cone. Read more
Ducklings and a Blended Family
April 27, 2010|Comments (16)
Ducklings and chicks are a few of my favorite things. That’s a good thing because we end up with them every spring. Of course, it’s not every year that one of our broody hens hatches chicks and then adopts the ducklings as well. Read more
Hatchlings
April 13, 2010|Comments (14)
Never one to deny mother nature a chance to prove herself, I let one of our broody Buff Orpington hens sit on two eggs. Admittedly, I was a skeptic. The odds that either of those eggs would actually hatch and produce anything more than a really horrific odor were fairly good. Except that I was totally and delightfully wrong. Read more
