Chickens can be kept in the backyard with simple equipment for their housing. These feathered creatures are interesting, low-cost, even friendly fowl to have around.
You don’t really need a rooster, and if you have close neighbors, I’d avoid adding Mr. Crower like the plague. Most neighbors may not see the humor in before dawn crowing. Your [...]
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I loved the chickens on the farm. Watching them run in and out of the barn was fun to a city girl. The chickens thought I was strange and I for sure thought they were. Of course, everything on foot was, to me, a pet. Soon, where ever I went, so did the chickens. I [...]
Meet Tall Pall in the Barn.
Barns. A part of America’s past that is slowly decaying and returning to the earth. Many of the woodworking skills that handcrafted these buildings are gone. I loved the old, faded smelly barn of my youth. I thought it was no place for a girl. But since I wasn’t firm [...]