Most days I spend 15 to 30 minutes doing chicken chores. The first thing I do after I get dressed and brush my teeth in the morning is...

As I wrote about a couple of weeks ago, we had some Trouble with Roosters. Ramon was being aggressive towards Reuben, and I decided to...

Two of our roosters, Reuben and Ramon, have been living in their own bachelor pad for a year and a half, and they had been doing quite...

It’s that time of year when the ladies go through the process of molting. Their feathers fall out by the handful, and they grow a new...

Those of you who have been reading my blog for a while know that an abundance of roosters goes hand in hand with raising chickens. We...

Raquel was our alpha hen in our first flock of chickens that we got in 2010. As we added new chickens to the flock over the years, she...

You win some, you lose some is a saying that I’ve found to be especially true when it comes to chickens and the illnesses that befall...

We’ve had a mini heat wave the last few days at the farm, so a little extra TLC is in order to make sure we all stay cool and healthy....

After months of anticipation waiting for one of our hens to go broody so she could hatch some chicks for us, we finally have seven new...

I hope I don’t jinx it by saying this, but after months of waiting and two prior plans for hatching eggs failed, we finally have a broody...

I guess it’s true what they say about the best laid plans. In January I had carefully planned out the two month long process that I would...

Rhoda and Raquel turned four years old this month, which has gotten me to thinking about all we’ve learned and how far we’ve come in our...

We had some sad news at 5R Farm recently which is that I lost two of my best lap chickens in December, the remaining two Sweet Peas. They...

Usually around this time of year, when it’s cold and rainy out, I’m hard at work looking through the endless pile of gardening catalogues...

I never get tired of watching the antics of Brown Rooster from the back door. When it’s not raining I usually put him outside of the...

Now that it’s getting dark so early and the number of daylight hours is almost at its annual low, the ladies’ egg production has dropped...

Last weekend we took a big step in our journey toward self-sufficiency at 5R Farm. You may recall from The Rooster Dilemma post that...

It’s that time of year when many chickens go through the annual process of molting and grow a new set of feathers. It’s easy to tell when...

It’s been several months since I removed the roosters from the chicken flock, and I’ve been juggling rooster housing ever since. Things...

There’s exciting news today at 5R Farm. Grace has joined the ranks of the laying hens, and even more exciting is that she’s a member of...