Number 7: Chickens make great companions. Chickens like the company of humans. They come running to see what you are up to when you come out of the house, and will follow you around as you do your outdoor chores. Their constant cooing and murmuring is very soothing to the human soul. And if they …
12 Days of Chickens – Number 8
Number 8: Back to the land – nothing like chickens to add to the urban farm life style. Andrea and Denise have a great yard full of fruit trees, berry bushes, and several vegetable garden plots, but there is nothing like having livestock to make one feel like you are living off the land. “There’s …
12 Days of Chickens – Number 9
Number 9: Chickens as intruder alert systems. Next to the dog and its’ bark, the chicken and its’ squawk is the next best thing in an alarm system. The chicken’s excellent eyesight and keen hearing, and don’t forget loud voice, makes them a natural intruder alarm system. Chickens are not shy about letting the whole …
12 Days of Chickens – Number 10
Number 10: Chickens make great squirrel guards. Actually chickens will chase any small animal that is on the ground in their yard. Penny loves chasing the cats, but all three hens will chase squirrels and birds that they find on the ground. Andrea and Denise are all for the chickens patrolling the yard for squirrels …
12 Days of Chickens – Number 11
Number 11: A whole flock could keep the lawn clipped. Who knew that chickens eat grass? Denise often teases Andrea that if they just had another 20 chickens, they would not need a lawnmower.
12 Days of Chickens – Number 12
Welcome to Henny, Penny, and Sky’s 12 Days of Chickens, brought to you by the Hen Herald. The traditional 12 Days of Christmas actually starts on Christmas Day, but the 12 Days of Chickens starts on the 14th of December. For 12 days there will be a post of a daily declaration of the top …
The Vision of Chickens
The Hen Herald apologizes for the lapse of a couple of issues and we hope we did not lose any readers to the competition. It was a very busy end of the summer, but winter is approaching and the staff here at HH will find plenty of time to write on the many cold rainy …
Henry Has Left the Nest
Just in time for this month’s Hen Herald, Henny is finally off the nest. She spent five weeks trying to hatch eggs and has finally moved on to other pursuits. Normally, eggs are brooded for about three weeks and the chicks hatch around 21 days. For Henny, whose eggs kept disappearing and no chicks appeared, …
Cock-a-doodle-dooooo
This month’s Hen Herald is on chicken vocalization. While Denise thought she had heard it all from her hens and was going to report on what Henny, Penny, and Sky had to say during a usual day, she was pleasantly surprised to find out she had more to learn as Henny displays a new behavior. …
What it means to have chicken legs?
Well, if you are a chicken, then having chicken legs is a very good thing. But in general, having chicken legs as a human is not a flattering term – as one anonymous person on the internet put it . . . “(chicken legs) – are really skinny (probably in comparison with your body), scrawny, …