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Have your cat microchipped so you can prove it is yours.

When I was a child a farm across the street raised turkeys which they keep in the barn as chicks and juveniles because they said they unlike chickens, geese and ducks would die in the rain. So if it isn't true as an old wife's tale has been around for a looooong time.

Our worst predators are foxes and the foxes couldn't care less whether a chicken has a name or not. No, they're smarter than that. They figure out exactly how much, if anything you've paid for each and every chicken or which chickens are the absolute favorites. Then those are the ones they go...

I've also heard the same thing several times, also, but it was always about turkeys, too. Don't now whether or not it is true, but did know some who had turkeys for a 4-H project and I do have to say they seem more delicate than chickens. It also seems more young turkeys than chickens didn't...

Throw in green and blue and olive and terra cotta and ink and speckled and you have real fun Then add in a bantam egg or two and a duck egg.

Everyone is tagging me. Sweaters, no sweaters. leashes. Sometimes I get several in one day.

You know how Eggland's Best is always advertising about the quality of their eggs? I always have to look at store eggs to compare to mine Of course one of the differences is the thickness of the shell. Store eggs have thin, very thin shells. Last week at the store I opened a carton of...

Maybe your sister wasn't as far off as you may think. Back in the dark ages when I grew up in a rural setting, we, of course, had chickens. There were three kinds, white egg layers, brown egg layers and meat chickens. (And white eggs came from the store. Brown eggs from the farm.) A bit...

Just expanding on what I have discovered. My welsumers lay very dark eggs, too. Only when they are next to the black copper marans eggs can I tell them apart. The cuckoo marans seems to lay a lighter egg than the black copper. I know several people with cuckoos and those eggs are a medium...