So happy to be a chicken lady again, some sweet young things raised on Portland have come to join us at The Raggy Rat! One conquers the appl...

A lot of people share recipies on their blogs, but I struggle with that, being a sort of bucket chemist in my aproach to family food.  This ...

Three fresh eggs, three different sizes ... now we have had a wind-egg before, but what's this? a dinosaur egg, me thinks! ...

and today, they get a new fence and gate - going into see them will be much easier!

some times, you have to stop what you are doing ... and cuddle a buff Orpington!

one day we decided to have an egg guess - we have 5 chickens and they had just had a very muddy grumbly day, when we took a vote at tea time...

we have settled into a nice routine here and chez raggy-rat ... I get the chickens up before the girls, and then later on we look for eggs a...

I was a bit busy today, getting to know some new pets ... This is the most forward of the chickens, a buff Orpington (one of two) who let me...

http://raggyrat.blogspot.com/2009/09/life-cylce-by-our-back-door.html They Hatched! We have new babies - this pic is better viewed large of ...