This week in a word? Cold. Don’t let the super sunny photos from the beginning of the week fool you- we endured the coldest temperatures of the year in Connecticut this week and are looking forward to a warm up any time now!
Margarita (Black White Faced Spanish pullet) taking a winter stroll.
Serama cockerel (left, Caesar) and Marans hen (right, ellen deHeneres)
Light Sussex cockerel (Chevy)
Columbian Wyandotte hen (Lola)
Black White Faced Spanish hen (Margarita)
Sylvio and Iris made it to the cover of my article in Chickens Magazine this month!
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This week in a word? Cold. Don’t let the super sunny photos from the beginning of the week fool you- we endured the coldest temperatures of the year in Connecticut this week and are looking forward to a warm up any time now!
My chicken mentor (Chicken Carol) years ago in Western MA – I’m sure some of these readers heard of her – always bought all the birds for 4H families and distributed them voluntarily. Then those unclaimed by children or their parents, as well as leftover adolescent chicks from class hatches, she would take back at the end of the hatching season – she always had LOTS of roosters to re-home (or cook). Her operation was way larger than an Ecoglow would cover but she would have loved this concept! If I win, it will be for Chicken Carol and in… Read more »
My chicken mentor (Chicken Carol) years ago in Western MA – I’m sure some of these readers heard of her – always bought all the birds for 4H families and distributed them voluntarily. Then those unclaimed by children or their parents, as well as leftover adolescent chicks from class hatches, she would take back at the end of the hatching season – she always had LOTS of roosters to re-home (or cook). Her operation was way larger than an Ecoglow would cover but she would have loved this concept! If I win, it will be for Chicken Carol and in… Read more »
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