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When you bring a puppy home from the pound, you hear things like, “Oh, just wait…they really change when they reach a year old!” And you might look forward to that, to having your shoes be safe from chewing and everyone’s communication skills improved to avoid accidents on the carpet.
And then you start hearing [...]
On July 2, I got five new baby Americana chicks to add to my existing flock of two Barred Plymouth Rocks, hoping to end up with about five hens total after the inevitable goofs in chick sexing. (Sure enough, I’ve got at least one and up to three roosters in this new batch of [...]
It’s been a hectic week, with more feelings and emotions than most. It’s draining.
I’d been home a while and would have been happy to stay embedded in the loveseat with Steve and Laika, but our CSA box pickup is on Thursdays, and I didn’t want to let it go until tomorrow. So I [...]
Can’t get enough of those chickens. They knock the camera off here because they’re terrified of the lettuce coming in. They’re terrified of pretty much anything, reminding me of Michael Pollan’s description of “free range” chickens too afraid of the outdoors to range into it in The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four [...]
Tonight we went to see the annual spectacle of the Vaux’s Swifts entering a night roost in a chimney near Healdsburg (details and location info here). Click on the photo above to see larger views, which show the number of birds at that moment a little better.
There are literally thousands of swifts in the [...]
If you’ve been watching the links that get posted here, you’ll notice my interest in chickens. Two weeks ago, I brought five baby chicks (”pullets”, as they are supposed to be female) home; they’re quite entertaining:
I want to end up with three hens, but took the farm store clerk’s advice and got five; if [...]
Wow…amazing footage…it’s over eight minutes long and worth every second…
Start the safari lust for sure.
