by Wendy EN Thomas of Lessons Learned from the Flock Warning, this post is about killing a chicken. Not everyone feels comfortable talking about culling a flock member, but sometimes it has to be done.  Which is why I taught myself to use a killing cone, if I’m going to teach workshops on raising chickens, […]

by Wendy EN Thomas of Lessons Learned from the Flock Now that the spring chicks have hatched and are well on their way to the hen houses, some people are starting to realize that while they may have hatched some great chicks, they may also very likely run into some trouble down the road when […]

by Wendy EN Thomas of Lessons Learned from the Flock Yup, it’s true. A chicken’s egg comes out of the same opening as the poop. That’s just the design and it’s why eggs that you get from your own chickens or even from a farmer’s market are probably going to have some poop staining on […]

by Wendy EN Thomas of Lessons Learned from the Flock Yup, it’s true. A chicken’s egg comes out of the same opening as the poop. That’s just the design and it’s why eggs that you get from your own chickens or even from a farmer’s market are probably going to have some poop staining on […]

by Wendy EN Thomas of Lessons Learned from the Flock I remember the days of youth when nothing, and I mean nothing, could keep me indoors on a winter afternoon. Spring chick that I was, each day my mother would cluck over me as I put on my snow pants, jacket, hat, mittens, jam my […]

by Wendy EN Thomas of Lessons Learned from the Flock I have to admit, when I was offered eight tiny, baby chicks four years ago, my first response wasn’t, “Oh yay, we’re going to get fresh eggs.” Instead I looked at those small fluffy packages of joy and thought to myself, boy are my six […]

by Wendy EN Thomas of Lessons Learned from the Flock I live in New Hampshire where our winters can get bitterly cold and while I don’t put a heater in our coop (if there is room to roost, the birds know how to keep themselves warm) on the coldest of cold days, I do leave […]