Little Blog In The Big Woods

   Something I neglected to say in my Prelude to Rats ; I will never sell you the things I'm reviewing; or use the blog as a way to ma...

I was serious about becoming more active here again.  In the past two days, though; looking around the world and the web, I haven't bee...

I was mortified to see that my "previous post" on poultry was - over a month ago.  I'd been intending some updates on our guin...

I  do have a life outside of fretting about Fukushima, really I do.  Older readers here will remember I started a series of posts way back t...

Smidgen, who is in kindergarten now,  came home a day ago and announced that "Troy still has talking issues." Which cracked me u...

  I'm kinda afraid to say "I'm back!" - but; I may be back.  We'll see.  I am back from my trip, and it was a tremend...

My mother taught me this rhyme- Whistling girls, and crowing hens Always come to some bad ends. She was explaining why she ...

So here is the cleaned corpse of the rooster- many thanks to Spice, who in spite of having presided at quite a few mammal cleanings, was a ...

Many thanks for all the chicken info and advice, folks.  It helped! We're eating it.  While I would certainly not eat a chicken I fou...

I have a dead chicken.  Not- as a consequence of the dog. When I went out to turn the birds loose for the day (they're closed in the c...

I'm using Harry Potter style puppy Latin there. I'm typing this on our 2nd backup computer; waiting for Beelar to herd me through ...

Alas- this is not a post about our friend Madame Crunchus Chickenus, and her various frisk-risky activities , but about a real chicken. It...

One useful aspect to all of us forcibly attending Camp TEOTWAWKI now, is that many people truly are starting to be more mindful of their...