My First Year with Chickens – Party Animals

Chickens are messy...and loud! My chickens are party animals. I lay in bed, Nerd is sprawled across the width of the bed, rear legs pressing into my back. Surry stretched across the foot of the bed nose to tail, not an inch left for me to straighten my legs. Petey snores softly in the chair in …

My First Year with Chickens – Pasty Butt

You can't read about caring for chicks without coming across a malady called pasty butt. It is every bit as joyous as it sounds. When droppings get stuck and build up on the baby chick's down surrounding the vent and create a blockage, which can become fatal, this is called pasty butt. And this was one …