This has been a really fucked up couple of weeks. There is the heatwave in India and Pakistan that no one in the mainstream media is talking about, and if they do, it’s mentioned like a verbal shrug, implying that it doesn’t really matter because it’s over there, and climate
Category: Chickens
Hello Friends. Happy belated Earth Day! Yeah, I know, every day is Earth Day, and it seems silly to have a designated day. But, I’m increasingly of the belief that special days are good to have for celebrations and to mark occasions or call attention to something. And since in
As if a human pandemic isn’t enough to worry about, now we have to worry about an outbreak of H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI). I’ve been getting regular updates from the Twin Cities chicken keeping list I am on since the outbreak began on the east coast a couple
We are in the midst of a thaw, and over the weekend I spent a day and half sniffling and sneezing and feeling blah, wondering whether I had COVID/a sinus infection/a cold before I realized it was allergies. Generally it takes a near complete snow melt before the allergies start
Ah chickens. They have been doing admirably in the bitter cold. I cannot say they are tired of winter as I am, I don’t know how they understand time and whether they think ahead, or if they only live in the now. While they have short attention spans, they have