Articles by SparkyCrows

At last count I had 20 different potential living areas to house my birds - some dedicated to a specific flock and others for temporarily housing sub-sets of birds. I keep my broodies, my elderly, and my super itty bitties separate from the free-range flocks. There are two free-range houses...

I have a very nice pair of partridge bantam wyandottes - beautiful lacing! A little silver / blue laced easter banty who lays olive - green eggs stayed with them. (That's her egg in the far right corner.) Here's "Viandotte" - daughter of the PBW rooster and Opal. She has really...

I'm trying to sort out the South American derivative birds I've been working with for the past few years. I use the term "South American" quite loosely since it's a very big place, innumerably fragmented by environmental, cultural, and social situations which have shifted dramatically and...