Where’s Brown Rooster?
I felt the worst had happened to Brown Rooster. For those of you that haven’t been introduced to Brown Rooster yet, he is one of the two...
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Jul 22, 2013
The Rooster Dilemma
It’s been three months since we spontaneously agreed to provide a home for six chicks that were hatched out in a friend’s grade school...
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Jun 29, 2013
Bachelor Pad #2
As much as I love my roosters, and as much as they love the ladies, it was time to move Reuben and Ramon into their own bachelor pad....
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Jun 19, 2013
Goodbye Sweet Sussex
I’ve known for a couple of months that one of our four Speckled Sussex hens was not doing well, and she finally left us this week. I’m...
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May 25, 2013
The Broody Girls
Now that we’ve gotten Millie through her broody phase by letting her hatch out a few chicks, we’ve got a couple more broody girls at the...
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May 1, 2013
Chicken Farm in the Sky
That’s where my little Sweet Pea is now. She left us this evening after a few weeks of us trying our best to nurse her back to health. I...
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Apr 19, 2013
Poor Little Sweet Pea
I had thought about calling this post “Crazy Chicken Lady” because I’m about to divulge the lengths I will go to for one of my favorite...
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Mar 21, 2013
Momma Millie
I have exciting news to report – our very own Millie hatched out some baby chicks! You may recall I had written about Millie wanting to...
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Mar 6, 2013
Rooster Love
I’ve learned a lot about rooster love in the last year, a bit too much perhaps, and one thing I can say is that love hurts! We currently...
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Feb 9, 2013
R.I.P. Henry
We lost one of the good ones this week. Henry was the pint-sized ambassador of 5R Farm. He was one of our two banty roosters, the...
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Feb 2, 2013
So Long, Ringo
It’s been a long time coming, but I finally decided to rehome one of our roosters – Ringo, our silver gray dorking. Now that the roosters...
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Jan 19, 2013
Winter Chickens at 5R Farm
We’ve had several weeks of freezing temperatures in the mornings at 5R Farm this winter. When I look out the window in the morning and...
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Dec 8, 2012
The Boys of 5R Farm, Part II
I introduced you to Rooster Cogburn (aka Reuben) and Ramon, the two highest ranking roosters in our flock, in the previous Boys of 5R...
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Nov 16, 2012
The Boys of 5R Farm
I had to give up my first rooster two and a half years ago when our backyard chicken Ramona turned into Ramon, and ever since then I...
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Oct 14, 2012
Momma Wanna-be
Well it’s official, we have our first broody hen. For those uninitiated in the ways of all things chicken, a broody hen is one that has...
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Sep 23, 2012
Full (Hen) House
The chicken flock is 6 months old, and that means one thing: eggs! Most of the young ladies have started laying, and we are getting over...
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Sep 12, 2012
Sweet Pea
We’ve got another chicken recuperating in the kitchen – this time it’s little Sweet Pea, one of my favorites of the new girls. Actually...
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Aug 9, 2012
The Odd Couple
You may recall that in addition to the 25 chicks we bought for the farm, we also bought five fancy breed chickens. These fancy chickens...
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Jul 27, 2012
R.I.P. Ruby
Today was a very sad day at 5R Farm. After a month of trying to nurse Ruby back to health, it was finally time to say goodbye and have...
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Jul 6, 2012
Oh Henry!
Henny Penny, one of the cute red cochin banty chickens we intended to keep in our backyard in Portland, started crowing at 5:30 in the...
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