Daniel's Pacific NW Garden

The hens had stopped producing, so we fired up the light timer in their hen house.  Now they are on 14 hours days again, and producing egg...

Chicken food can be costly.  You don't always know what you are getting.  We have room on our 2 acres to experiement with additional c...

Bean Bed, 2 Weeks after Sowing.  8.8.15  It looks like about 1/2 of the beans germinated.  If they reach maturity before frost, that...

This was a week ago.  I pulled out the marigolds and sweet alyssum.  They were too rank and taking over the bearded iris bed.  The hens at...

Chicken Tractor

The sex-linked pullets are growing fast. I'm convinced they'll be bigger than Turkeys. Maybe ostriches.

Done for the winter.  The upstairs window openings are covered with plastic sheeting, to keep the cold wind out and keep rain from coming in...

This view looks into the chicken fortress. I've built a shelf for the nesting boxes. The nesting boxes are old plastic recycle bins...

The hens will be quite happy with their new house. It's a children's play fortress. There are no children around, so it's a li...

Murder most fowl in the hen house. I've discovered that instead of the usual 3 hens, we now have 2 hens and a pile of feathers. No cal...