Raw Chicken

Birth, life, death and love… alongside chickens

[Raw Chicken @rawchickenNT]

The Art of Ripping Heads http://t.co/n250qL8E2b

[Jade Appleton @jadeappleton]

Lost Babies http://t.co/AD3Vo5grSu

[Raw Chicken @rawchickenNT]

That Plymouth hatched 7 babies... and squashed 5 of them. Absolute carnage in the nest. Devo.

[Raw Chicken @rawchickenNT]

Preparing to brave the Plymouth in the nest; tonight, in the dark, with gloves, to give her fertile eggs

[Practical Poultry @PracticlPoultry]

Tape black drinking straws or corrugated cardboard to the underside of perches. Red mite will roost in them, then you can throw them away

[Raw Chicken @rawchickenNT]

That brown araucana is not missing, but AWOL. Just when I give up hope, she appears from her dalliances, just briefly.

[Raw Chicken @rawchickenNT]

The rottenness of a rotten egg cannot be underestimated.

[Raw Chicken @rawchickenNT]

After all I have seen in the world of eggs, sometimes I have to work hard to enjoy eating the splendid things.

[Raw Chicken @rawchickenNT]

PRETTY glad I wasn't running an incubator this week... Generator is still on my list.

[Raw Chicken @rawchickenNT]

Want to decrease no. of bush rats in roof. A swollen smelly floater in the spa. LONG tails. Beautiful creatures. :(

[Raw Chicken @rawchickenNT]

Dumb idea to part with beautiful roosters. Missing them, regretting change of direction to lighten load.

[Raw Chicken @rawchickenNT]

Official word from the coop is quiet, dark night. 5 stars. "Best sleep ever", said one hen. #blackout

[Raw Chicken @rawchickenNT]

Sons, we raise chickens. We are not diary farmers. Why the 4:30am starts... ?

[Raw Chicken @rawchickenNT]

Caught 2 little squawking Rhode Island Red escapees this afternoon to save them from the neck pecks of the big girls.

[Raw Chicken @rawchickenNT]

Hello, tiny fury face with big ears and long whiskers, peering over coop into the light of my head-torch #wherearethesnakes