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In Canada, a small farmer with 99 or fewer hens can sell “ungraded” eggs at his/her gate, but nowhere else. So a small farmer who sells eggs at the farmers market is breaking the law. With prices for farmstead eggs skyrocketing, industrial egg producers are fighting back against what they see as an infringement [...]
(DJ Mitchell Photo)
This is my rooster Silky. As you can tell he is a very calm rooster. If a rooster or hen is turned on to their back they will fall asleep.
(Suellen Hockey Photo)
I took this photo using my left hand. The picture I was trying for was of our faces. There is a second delay before my camera actually takes a picture. During that delay the chicken on my shoulder turned around to show her tail feathers. I am laughing because I knew she had turned [...]
(Suellen Hockey Photo)
Every time I raised my right arm up to take a picture of the chickens in the coop yard these two hens would jump up on my arm to roost. I took this picture with the camera in my left hand.
(Suellen Hockey Photo)
Snow + Sunshine = Mud Our chickens think it’s a lot fun to scratch in the mud.
Made in 1948, this film discusses the post-war program to develop “The Chicken of Tomorrow”– the chickens we buy in stores today. I doubt they realized at the time that the chicken industry would be completely changed, based on mono-crops raised in confined spaces. Already, the methods displayed in the film show chickens confined, unable to [...]
In honor of the winter weather. (It was -25 degrees at home this morning!)
Anywhere she feels like it. This hen adopted an unused water bucket as her nesting box.