Raising Chickens – In the Beginning

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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My Pet Chickens On the Farm

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 [...]

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If Barns Could Talk

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 [...]

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