Articles by knwisdom

Hello, this is the story of how we built Sweet Pea's Rustic Roost for our little flock of 7 hens. Sweet Pea is one of our Barred Rock Chickens. She was the sweetest of the chicks and used to sit on my shoulder. She seems to be partly blind which has made her very sweet and a bit funny. She...

Providing a pond for your ducks is great for a lot of reasons, but does that mean a huge water use dumping water everyday or can they be filtered? My journey to have a pretty duck pond that my ducks and I can enjoy without it being a big mess and maintenance nightmare has been ongoing for 3...

I love BYC. It really helped me when I started raising chickens 5 years ago. I got great ideas for coop design and was really well informed when I brought my little fluffy chicks home. This year I wanted to add ducks to our garden and while I bought Storey‘s book on raising ducks I just...

Ingredients: 1 onion 1/2 bunch celery 3-4 med carrots 6-8 gold potatoes peeled or unpeeled 1/2 stick butter leftover rotisserie or baked chicken or Turkey 1/2 puff pastry sheet or pie crust flour 1/4 - 1/2 cup chicken broth or stock 4-8 cups depending on the amount of leftover chicken you have...

I started with 7 sweet hens, well 6 sweet, one little pecker. Update - we lost Bells in Jan 2017 to a hawk. So we now just have 6 sweet little hens. I was very sad, felt terrible about it, but if there was a chicken to lose, Bells would be my pick. The little flock is very mellow now. I...