Oak Post Ranch

If you’re 8 you know the correct answer. I can’t get these things to quit roosting on my deck. Any suggestions? I cleaned up their dirty area, hoping I could keep it clean, but they are back again tonight. I shooed them away a few times, but they are back before I can shut the [...]

So that I may freely run screaming out my front door in my pajamas after 9 a.m. to kindly ask a lone sow if she wishes to return to her pen and leave the chickens alone…
I actually stopped and looked around this morning, checked that the sun was indeed shining high in the sky, and [...]

Rodney gave his black chickens some weeds. He asked me “where do we find weeds?” Somehow, I didn’t expect his weeds to have blossoms on them.

The chickens weren’t really sure what to think of them.

Now they are “chicken-wired” and hopefully safe from our cat. And other outside predators – like pigs. Their current housing situation [...]

Rodney, I guess, is really the chicken farmer. He wanted some black chickens. But he “let me” take a few others home, too. We visited the local farm supply store yesterday and decided to see if we could keep chickens alive. For that reason, we didn’t bring home very many, and don’t have a long [...]