Recent content by Miyazaki

Okay folks... been back in Japan a week already and hit the ground running. The reason I didn't post much while I was in the US involved a trip to the ER early New Year's Day (not bird related). Fortunately, during the visit stateside, there was time to stop by the local feed store and pick up a...

Thanks everybody. I'm back in the US for about three weeks, so I'm missing out on all of the fun involved in watching the brood grow. We just had seven hatch last week and it looked like they are all doing fine when I left; the wife and kids are on chicken-duty while I'm away. I'll work on...

Originally from Central California's San Joaquin Valley. Just last year, we got our first set of chicks. After setting up an outdoor shelter in the middle of a typhoon, my wife swore at me while swearing that we would never raise chickens again. Five of the seven turned out to be cockerels (two...

We were also trying to figure out what breed to call our "jidori." The only information we could get from our neighbors wasn't very helpful. At the moment, we've got four (not including the cockerel we just laid to rest in the freezer), three pullets and one cockerel. "Jidori" do seem like a...