Henhouse Harlot
My little family and I live and work our "Tiny Farm" we call "Peep Show Farms, We Love Chickens!"! My son is unschooled (after I discovered that it wasn't just laziness and potential illiteracy!!!), and I swear I learn just as much as he does! Our chickens are very loved, I take them a hot mash, every morning! <3
My partner built our coop entirely out of reclaimed wood found by dumpsters, pallets, etc. When I get around to taking pictures of it's utter magnificence, you'll understand why I'm so impressed. It looks like it cost a small country, or two... Anyhow.
Our chicken adventure started when we lived off-grid in the Siskiyou Mountains. We raised our original flock of 6 from tiny chicks, and then there's the "Luckiest Chicken in the World". She was a 5-6 year old Delaware hen, at the end of her egg-laying days who was living on a meat bird farm. Yikes!
"Nice old hen, anyone want her? We ran out of room in our freezer"....read the ad on Craigslist. My son pointed to the picture of the white hen with black spots at her neck and scruffy tail. Clearly, she had not been high on the pecking order there! "That's her, that's the one I want." He announced, cool as a cucumber. Certain that chicken would come home to us.
Of course she did!
"Chicoletta" first came home to us over a year ago, I can't imagine her not being around now!
Eventually, she had no choice but to join Hey-Hey's flock. How she'd HATED those little babies!!! Oooooh!!!!!
Now?
She's the top boss-hen,she eats organic, whole-grain food, juicy worms in plenty, several helpings of scratch grain treats a day, freezedried mealworms and a can or three of corn or tuna, once in a while. Looking at her happily eating the leafy green scraps from my garden, I think how she won the chicken lottery.
Lucky chicken
My partner built our coop entirely out of reclaimed wood found by dumpsters, pallets, etc. When I get around to taking pictures of it's utter magnificence, you'll understand why I'm so impressed. It looks like it cost a small country, or two... Anyhow.
Our chicken adventure started when we lived off-grid in the Siskiyou Mountains. We raised our original flock of 6 from tiny chicks, and then there's the "Luckiest Chicken in the World". She was a 5-6 year old Delaware hen, at the end of her egg-laying days who was living on a meat bird farm. Yikes!
"Nice old hen, anyone want her? We ran out of room in our freezer"....read the ad on Craigslist. My son pointed to the picture of the white hen with black spots at her neck and scruffy tail. Clearly, she had not been high on the pecking order there! "That's her, that's the one I want." He announced, cool as a cucumber. Certain that chicken would come home to us.
Of course she did!
"Chicoletta" first came home to us over a year ago, I can't imagine her not being around now!
Eventually, she had no choice but to join Hey-Hey's flock. How she'd HATED those little babies!!! Oooooh!!!!!
Now?
She's the top boss-hen,she eats organic, whole-grain food, juicy worms in plenty, several helpings of scratch grain treats a day, freezedried mealworms and a can or three of corn or tuna, once in a while. Looking at her happily eating the leafy green scraps from my garden, I think how she won the chicken lottery.
Lucky chicken- Location
- Aurora, Oregon
- Real Name
- Nico
- Gender
- Female
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I absolutely adore CHICKENS, and all things CHICKEN!!! From a fluff ball of "peep"! To a sleek, finely-featheted, egg laying hen...well, chickens are just so very, very cool. They're far more fun than watching TV, AND they eat all of my kitchen scraps! Plus, they leave free fertilizer for my garden on top of everything!
- Occupation
- Mother, philanthropic horse-lover, writer, gypsy, artist...
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