Cowboy Bean Recipe for Your Next Picnic I have incredible memories of our kids’ birthday parties. One of my favorite memories is listening to my grandpa swoon over my baked beans! I can just hear him now. I miss him and think of him every time I make this yummy recipe. We love to celebrate … Read more
Chicken w/ green poop, shell-less egg | BackYard Chickens Disclaimer: It has been hot and very dry in my area for a week or so, but my hens were al fine. Now it is cooling down. Her behavior is completely fine and she eats and drinks. She is currently being dewormed on day 3 with … Read more
Natural Chicken Keeping: Digital Art So this is the beginning of our rags to rich… ermmm… not-so-raggedy… story. Back in late August my husband lost his job. Losing a job sucks. Especially when you’ve finally worked your way back up after losing everything just 7 years before to medical bills. Just when we thought we … Read more
Easy Vegetable Egg Roll Ups Fall is in the air, and while I’ve been holding on to the last days of summer, it’s time to face the reality of sending the kids back to school. The lazy summer mornings, big breakfasts and spontaneous adventures are giving way to schedules, packed lunches and soccer and football … Read more
Vet doesnt know what’s wrong with my hen’s foot… please help me figure out! | BackYard Chickens I just got off the phone with the vet’s technician and I’m overwhelmed, shocked, and mentally distressed, to say the least. On 8/23 sometimes in the early afternoon, one of my hens started limping. Next day, she did … Read more
Chickens Telling Elephant Jokes! No, Really! — Randy’s Chicken Blog Then, in 2016, I started writing the first version of this blog. Those early posts contained a lot of those pictures. Eventually, I started adding dialogue balloons. And somehow that morphed into elephant jokes. Yep, elephant jokes. Nope. I don’t know why either. But all … Read more
What a Great Gift for a Farmer! This year we received a wonderful gift in the form of some outerwear from Duluth Trading Company. To be frank, with our finances the way they are, we would never have gone out and purchased these items for ourselves. In fact I’ve been wearing the same old work … Read more
Can I Have Chickens Where I Live? And How to Find Out Keeping chickens as backyard pets and for egg production has become very popular among homeowners! I feel like since covid hit, backyard chickens and gardening blew up because people were home and had time to care for their flocks and gardens. Since then, … Read more
Shadrach’s Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread. | BackYard Chickens In April 2021 I returned to the UK having spent the last ten years living with and studying various groups of chickens on a small holding In Catalonia Spain. Some of you may have read some of my posts and seen pictures of what I … Read more
Chicken City – A Chicken Movie! — Randy’s Chicken Blog So, I was bitten with the film bug and decided to return to my chicken roots and produce my second film, Chicken City, based on my book, The Complete Chicken. With my creative team of editors, artists, musicians and an animator, the film is well … Read more