The cold weather has arrived, and that can be stressful for your chicken flock and for us chicken keepers too. I remember my first winter...

It's inevitable, really. The longer you have chickens, the more of them you'll end up with. It all starts innocently enough. Just a...

Raising chickens is a heartwarming experience, that is until the first time you add new members to your flock and you realize they really...

I fall in love with the farm all over again at this time of year. The new life and promise of what is to come during the spring and...

In my 11 years of chicken keeping, I had never ordered chicks in the mail from a hatchery until this year. Most of the time I buy chicks...

It had been a while since we added a big group of chickens to the farm. In 2012, we moved the founding members of 5R Farm – Rhoda,...

I was thrilled to be featured in Backyard Poultry Magazine! You can read my article right here.

Goodbye to our beautiful Raquel It's the end of an era at the farm as we bid goodbye to our flock matriarch, Raquel, the last of our...

Oh winter, I’ll be glad to bid this one goodbye. It started out as a fairly uneventful winter, busy with work and the holidays, but still...

We’ve had so much going on at the farm that the end of summer and fall just flew by this year! A big project that has been ongoing for...

Spring is an exciting time at the farm for many reasons, pretty spring flowers in the yard, starting seeds in the greenhouse, the...

After months of the chickens spending most of their time hunkered down in their coops from the cold and the wind and the rain, they are...

My special needs rooster, Reuben, finally crossed over the rainbow bridge. Of course I knew this day was coming, I’ve known it for a...

This was our fourth year living at the farm full time, and every year it gets better and better. One of my favorite things about living...

I’m pretty sure that sweet Rosie’s days with us are numbered, and I am savoring every moment spent with her. Rosie is one of the founding...

Lucky is one of the two chicken chicks that were hatched this spring along with the turkey poults (which is what baby turkeys are called)...

We have a new momma at the farm, this time around it’s a chicken momma, and we have four new chicks as well. I had thought we were done...

At long last, spring is here! It’s time to get my hands in the dirt and fight the good fight against slugs, rodents, cute little wild...

Well, gosh, sorry I’ve taken a few weeks off from the blog. There’s not been too much going on at the farm recently except for a whole...

This winter was colder than usual, with several weeks of freezing or below freezing temperatures. Most of our feathered friends get along...