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Raising Worms for Feeding Your Chickens
Some of my most cherished memories from childhood are from the years I lived on my grandparent’s 160 acre farm in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. My grandfather would plow his fields with a team of...
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Healthy Chicken Treats and What Not to Give Your Flock
Hand feeding helps tame your chickens Giving goodies to your chickens is a great way to earn their trust and get them to love you! Chicken treats are also very helpful for use in training your flock...
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The best chicken breed to choose for the Zombie Apocalypse
Everyone wants the perfect chicken. Of course, what qualifies as “perfect” varies depending on your needs. Some are looking for heat tolerant birds; others want cold tolerant birds. Some want heritage...
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Three ways chickens will improve your beer
You know what else chickens can do for you? They can help you make beer at home. No kidding. We have chicken beer all the time–the girls just LOVE helping! Well… all right, it’s not “chicken beer,”...
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Eating seasonally: why follow the lead of your chickens?
It’s just about time for wild blackberries to ripen in my area; I can hardly wait! The chickens and I like eating seasonally , and the girls enjoy the blackberries just as much as I do. We have all...
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Part 3: Raising worms to feed your chickens
Dump a manageable amount into bin Part 3: Raising worms This is the third installment of my blog about raising worms as feed for your chickens. Part one can be viewed here and part two here. In this...
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Chicken pottery – My new, cool thing
We as a family are generally pretty frugal. We like making the most of what we get into the house. This goes double for our foods. We like to use fresh vegetables as often as we can. In an effort to...
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Pumpkins for chickens – Pumpkins everywhere!
Hey Girls! It’s PUMPKIN and SEEDS!!! Now is the time to get pumpkins for chickens. Scoop up all the left over, cheap pumpkins you can find from the grocery stores and farmers markets. They should be...
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How much I saved with my chickens and garden
Back in 2009, after deeply rooting myself into the sustainable living lifestyle, I was curious about how much I actually produced from my chickens and garden—and how much I saved over the year. It sure...
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Fresh greens mean healthier eggs
I love my flock! Watching their funny antics, getting mobbed when I show up with treats, and being adored by a few lap chickens is rewarding, but being able to supply my family with delicious, healthy...
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Gardening For Your Chickens
As a gardener I want my entire family to benefit from what we grow. That includes the chickens and ducks. Fresh foods are important to the health of our chickens; healthier chickens means healthier...
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Listen Lissa: My hen lays funny-looking eggs!
A Listen Lissa reader writes in with a question about her hens’ funny-looking eggs: I have a question about some funny-looking eggs. My chickens are a year old now, and have been laying for about seven...
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The Ragged Feathers of Summer: 7 causes
When your day old baby chick feathers in for the first time at 12 weeks old or so with her complete juvenile plumage, there’s almost nothing quite as beautiful. Each feather is shiny and new. And a...
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Vegetarian chickens? Ha!
One of the weirdest things I see on the cartons of commercial eggs in stores is this: “Vegetarian-fed.” Vegetarian chickens? Ha! What are they thinking? Got meat? You got it. I’ll eat it. Chickens are...
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Chunky Chicken Giveaway!
No, we’re not giving away fat chickens. We’re giving away samples of our own My Pet Chicken branded treats, in a Chunky Chicken Giveaway! Look at those plump worms! Drive your chickens wild… or freak...
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Fodder for chickens
It’s that time of year when your luscious green grass starts to dry up and become crunchy and brown. It doesn’t look very appetizing, so why would your chickens want that? Wouldn’t you want a fresh...
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DIY No-Waste feeder!
I have an embarrassingly large number of chickens who eat quite a bit of food. (Let’s not get into actual numbers of birds I may or may not have, because then the chicken math I keep in my head starts...
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Olive Picking, for the Chickens
In my neighborhood, olive trees are a pretty common landscaping tree. They’re in many parks and backyards, dropping olives, staining sidewalks and shoes, and making a general mess. Olive picking...
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DIY PVC Chicken Feeder
We all hate wasted bird feed, all those little bits that spill out of hanging feeders onto the ground, or the excess waste of crumbles or pellets lost from a ground feeder due to scratching hens. There...
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Spoiled chickens
I may have a flock of spoiled chickens. My brother-in-law has started his first job: he works at a bagel shop, and he knows the way to my hens’ hearts. His company normally donates any leftover bagels...
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