Update on Our Pet Chickens

I didn’t really write a lot about our pet chickens in the past three years. They’ve deserved more space on this blog, however.

There has been a major change, and thus the update.

We got three chickens in October 2008…

How to Make Hay for Pets

Seeing the photo above, some might ask:  what on earth are we doing here?  Making hay.  But why?  In an inner city backyard?  There are no big meadows or cows close by!

Well, we are using it as the chicken …

Pet chickens: Keeping chickens in the city

Let me introduce our gorgeous city chickens: Princess, Singapore and Sunflower.  Singapore is the black one, still occasionally called “he” although reliably proving the opposite every morning.  Sunflower (on the left) has brown feathers, lays biggest eggs and is first …