Rancho Soledad
Alpine, CA
17 acres in the chaparral covered hills outside of San Diego, CA. Me, hubby, 3 indoor cats, 2 outdoor cats, 2 dogs, koi, and now chickens!
This page is dedicated to our wonderful burro we had for 10 years, George. We miss you.
After starting to buy fresh eggs at...
When we decided to get chickens, and were thinking about whether or not to also raise them for meat, I was very wary until I read Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. She has a great chapter on harvesting chickens for meat, and it really helped me see that it was okay. We still have...
Saw one of these this year with a tarantula in it's grasp. Apparently they paralyze them and then lay an egg - the poor tarantula doesn't die (yes, I think tarantulas are cool). I've seen plenty of the tarantula hawks and tarantulas and never been bothered by either one here in SoCal.
Violet22...
OK, here goes... This coop was started back in March and still isn't done, but I wanted to get my BYC page started. I'll keep updating as we continue to work on it.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=39477
Thanks for looking!