This is probably not how antique stores are supposed to work.

Our shiny new cultivator!

We took a day “off” this weekend (Visited farmer’s markets and farms around Chimacum. And shopped for hay.) and headed up to Port Townsend. We perused an antique store and found a perfectly functional corn planter and a brightly painted Planet Junior-type wheel hoe. We’d been eyeing these tools [...]

You see that? It’s made of chicken! Brilliant.

These English blokes (I think that’s “dudes” translated into En-UK) might be on to something…

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PEEEEEEEEEP!

This is what a baby robin looks like.

Note the more-than-superficial resemblance to a baby chicken, like one of the three that used to be able to get out of the coop.

Now, imagine that Oscar (Note to readers: Oscar is my dog) finds such a baby bird, partially feathered out, behind [...]

Ruby’s Life is Hard -or- Maybe I Should Turn on the Electric Fence

We pasture our chickens with a combination of a chicken tractor and electric mesh fencing. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to get a good charge on the fence and, in combination with the dogs being friendly with the chickens and keeping predators down, we don’t turn the electric fence on. It’s just a big [...]

The hen, she crows!

Rare Crowing Hen — $5.

I haven’t been able to stop giggling since I ran across this ad. (Reproduced here in case the ad goes away)