Northview Diary

Yeah, the kids brought their incubator down here after a test run up at Jade's grandparents' house. It has been running in the d...

Blue Cochin rooster. I love the way he crows. The kids got a new rooster Sunday and a few new chicks, plus Laura has her little brood....

Poultry style. The kids are building hen coops in the heifer barn and gathering up laying birds so as to sell eggs...speaking of which...

Who is that, w-a-a-a-a-a-y up there in the box elder tree? Hmmm, orange and speckled critters, spotlighted in the light from the setting sum...

RIP We lost a hen last night up on the bowling green (yes, this old Victorian homestead sports an actual bowling green...not that, other tha...

Laura surprised us with five little chickies ....just as we had decided that she was sitting on infertile eggs and were going to switch them...

Ooh, he has us all gathered together here....what will we do? Crow, what else?

Cost of eggs debated.

See this silly rooster? (Yeah, those are snow flakes blowing past him.) Liz' boss gave him and a couple of his brothers to us a while ba...

Both ends of the day, dagnabbit, and no choice about it. Thank the Lord for flash lights. Last night we got done with chores fairly early. ...

For the past two summers I have let some weedy sumacs grow up in front of the big living room windows. They are ugly, but the convenient pe...

Like you really can't carry an egg in your pocket . Even your shirt pocket. Even if you go right straight to the house. Go ahead, try it...

Teri gave us this fellow a while back . We let him out of the coop to run around the other day and he is such a sweetie! He is still called ...

Teri gave this guy to Liz . I like hearing his crow and he seems to like his lodgings in the new hen house with the striking hens. Hope he ...

Sunday Matt and Lisa presented us with this nifty free-standing hen house. Liz and I moved the girls in yesterday and they seem to approve ...

Errr.....I mean Becky and the giant......egg . This egg was laid by Chick Pea, Becky's Buff Orpington hen. She only lays about one a we...