I really thought I was going to have a raccoon-free year. Had some traps out earlier this spring, caught nobody, put them away again. Yesterday, the hens and a couple of the roosters were out foraging. It was a pretty stormy afternoon, a few spits of rain now and then, and very windy. My...
I'm posting the following transcript of an audio recording I've had for a long time for several reasons. One is to simply preserve the story because the CASSETTE TAPE it's on can't possibly last much longer. Another is my hope that someone will recognize it and be able to tell me who the...
Earlier this summer I bought a bunch of two-month old chicklets, buff orpingtons and olive eggers (buff X easter egger/Ameraucana). They were all hatched and raised together as a single large clutch by the breeder and I likewise initially kept them together in a single large pen, as they learned...