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A Carton of Eggs: Part 3 - Wild Harvest Cage Free Large Brown Eggs
This is part three of a series about the information printed on egg cartons. I’ve found you can learn from all that carton information once you figure out what it's actually saying. And sometimes you can learn a whole lot by what it doesn’t say. Wild Harvest is a brand aimed at consumers who prefer natural and organic products. These are consumers who expect that the producers of the food products they buy are adhering to strong and consistent animal welfare standards. Are these consumers getting what they think they’re getting when they buy Wild Harvest eggs?
Getting Your Coop Ready for Winter - Battening Down the Chickens
The basic requirements to keep your chickens happy and healthy during the cold winter months.
Poop (Dealing With Those Piles of Chicken Manure)
Chickens in your backyard provide a unique ambience. They also provide nonstop entertainment. And don’t forget the eggs - they generously offer daily eggs. What else? Oh, yeah. Poop. They give us lots of poop. They are veritable pooping machines! Who would have imagined?! Here’s how to deal with it.
Sweater Girls - Chickens in Sweaters and Other Preposterous Notions
Remember when chicken sweaters were the BIG FASHION THING? Maybe not. It actually only lasted a day in my coop. But it’s a day the Hipster Hens will never forget.
Sour Crop and Flystrike: The Little Red Hen Gets Well
This is the saga of how one tenacious little red hen at death's door fought her way back to the land of the living. It is also the tale of my search for the needle of truth about a confusing chicken disease and its treatment in the haystack of conflicting information on the internet. Sometimes, in order to do the right thing for your sick chicken, you have to sift through a lot of hay, then grit your teeth and hope you’re grabbing the needle.
Baseball, Sick Chickens, and Love
A hen can go from normal to fly-blown in 24 hours, and can go from fly-blown to dead in an equally short period of time.
Fixing Those Pesky Leaking Chicken Water Founts
Every double-walled water fount will eventually start to leak due to tiny holes in the sleeve that allow air to enter. Repair is simply a matter of filling those holes. Read this post to learn how to do the fix, and I’ll even throw in a magic trick!
Everything About Chicken Sex
Sometimes when a mommy hen and a daddy rooster love each other very, very much……