Hen Herald Update The Hen Herald wishes to apologize AGAIN, for taking so long to get this issue out after the strike. The staff decided to go on vacation in order to smooth the ruffled feathers that emerged during the heavy strike negotiations between the management and the riffraff. For our team re-building vacation, we …
Author: Denise Kelsey
Coop Tour
Hen Herald Update The Hen Herald wishes to apologize to its subscribers and hopes that it has not lost any readers due to the absence of issues. We at the Hen Herald strive to give our readers the very best, but apparently our writers believed that the Hen Herald does not give its employees the …
More Stories From Our Readers
Chicken Update The Hen Herald has heard from several readers that they will be enhancing their lives with hens. The Hen Herald would like to think we had something to do with inspiring them to make chickens part of urban living or the small hobby farm life. Some of their stories will follow and we …
Stories From Our Readers
Chicken Update The Hen Herald staff wants everyone to know that all three of the girls are now laying eggs. And with the change, the hens are again food-focused. This makes working with the girls so much easier, for they come running for food when called and practically push Denise over to get into their …
12 Days of Chickens – Number 1
Number 1: Having chickens makes the heart sing. Chickens are individuals and full of the joy of being alive. “It is never dull with chickens, they certainly are not machines, they each have their own personalities, and you never know what they are going to do next,” Denise says with a grin on her face. …
12 Days of Chickens – Number 2
Number 2: Fresh chicken eggs. The eggs are one of the main reasons that Denise and Andrea got the girls. No two eggs are alike, except for their ‘eggcellent’ flavor. Each chicken produces several eggs a week, usually only taking a one-day break, and each egg has a slightly different shape, color, and size compared …
12 Days of Chickens – Number 3
Number 3: Sluggo Control – main ingredient – Chickens. “After the rain started the first winter in our new home, the slugs came out hiding, every square foot of the yard had a least one slug crawling in it, I was completely disgusted – YUCK!” Denise exclaimed. “After we got our chickens and let them …
12 Days of Chickens – Number 4
Number 4: Got unwanted food? Chickens will compost! Everyday Denise prepares a variety of fresh fruit, veggies, and greens for her chickens. But only about half of the food she chops up is purchased for the hens, the other half is food that would normally have gone in the garbage or to the outdoor plastic …
12 Days of Chickens – Number 5
Number 5: Chickens as mulching machines. Denise loves what chickens do to fall leaves. Each winter Denise takes the leaves from the trees and puts them in piles on her garden plots to start to decompose and await their final mulching. The leaves are then cycled through the chicken run (see photo) where the chickens …
12 Days of Chickens – Number 6
Number 6: Baby Chickens are so, so cute. It makes it quite impossible to resist them. It is pure joy to raise chickens from new-born chicks. A list to describe chicks: fluffy and light, bouncing, peeping, pecking, curious, cautious, stumbling and tumbling, running and flapping, voracious eaters, constant poopers, walking through the food, standing in …