Category: Chickens

  • How to harvest your pet chicken rooster. Au Revoir

    How to harvest your pet chicken rooster. Au Revoir

    This is farming….and for all of those people who wonder how we can eat our pet, I challenge you to go vegetarian for the rest of your life, because knowing where your food comes from is important. It makes you appreciate it and respect it, more than going to the supermarket and picking up a…

  • My First Chicken Rooster Harvest Challenge

    My First Chicken Rooster Harvest Challenge

    The real life highs and lows of keeping chickens as back yard pets.

  • Spoilt Backyard Chickens Get Fancy Feeders for Thanks Giving

    It’s thanks giving weekend and the chickens are getting well and truly looked after. The chickens and I were gifted a brand new super efficient chicken feeder. My daughter’s birthday present of seven baby chicks are currently living in the old coop, but will be in the main hen house before we know it.  Which will…

  • Meet The New Chicks On The Block

    Meet The New Chicks On The Block

    We are super lucky that the Northern Beaches Council encourages its residents to keep chickens for sustainability purposes. That said, we don’t live on acreage and roosters are not allowed. So I’ve been avoiding getting day old chicks for a few years now. But when your daughter asks for baby chickens for her fourth birthday,…

  • My Kitchen Garden Organic Summer Harvest Best of Sustainable Living

    This evening I ventured out in to the vegetable garden to gather dinner. What I found was slim pickings of lettuce (as I left it too long between succession planting), some delicious yellow tomatoes, basil, chilies and two eggs from the chickens. We made a simple garden salad that didn’t include the chili or the…