Articles by lesliedow

I was so thrilled to finally have enough land to give myself fully to chicken math. After finding my 11 acres in northern Illinois overlooking the Mississippi river the next step was to build the coop. I had been eyeing the amazing coop Grade Eh Coop by @MiaS and my build is based in large part...

This is a case of bad naming, just not in the way I planned. All 4 birds are lovely Silver Penciled Plymouth Rocks that I bought from BYC'er Shannon from DieFly Ranch. We thought that Abelard was a badly named pullet, but she..er..he ended up being correctly named. Poor Eloise, he is a...

We are pretty new to this whole chicken-thing. But we have 6 adolescent chicks that a few days ago staged a re-enactment of Chicken Run! That's Peregin Chicken perched there, undecided, on the edge of her brooder. She's call Peregrin Chicken because she likes to sit on my son's shoulder. He...