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Read more Posted byBulldogmaat9:20 PM3 comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Tuesday, March 31, 2020 How to Raise Chicks - All the Basics to Keeping Healthy ChicksNew to Chicks? We can help!

First, allow me to direct your attention to the Article Index tab near the top of your screen. This is where you can find all sorts of answers to the most common chicken questions as your chicks grow. (There are some dead links in there, but Im working to get them weeded out.)


So - now lets talk CHICKS!

What you need for the first 6 - 8 weeks:
BROODERHEAT SOURCEBEDDINGFEEDERWATERERCHICK FEEDRead more Posted byBulldogmaat3:15 PM2 comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Tuesday, September 12, 2017 I Think the Chicken Has Gone Bad - A Humorous AnecdoteThe other day we had somebody (aguy I consider my second son) help us clear out some scrap pieces of wood thatwere sitting in our hay shed. We have had hay in there before, but needed theextra space the wood was taking up to store more hay before the cold weathercomes. We have kept a knife or two in the hay shed in the past to cut thebailing twine... keep this in mind...


Read more Posted byBulldogmaat2:20 PM7 comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Saturday, June 24, 2017 Chicken Keeping Without PlasticBy Guest-Writer,Ginny Chandoha
Being a chicken keeper is a daunting task if you are raisingchicks yourself for the first time. You can read every book, and look at everychicken-related website, but its just like having children for the first time.There are situations you wont find answers to anywhere and have to come upwith your own plan of attack.
We raise our chickens ultra-organically. I say that becausewe go above and beyond what is called for in organic poultry keeping rules andregulations. While there is much discussion on feed and environment, when itcomes to what our birds will eat or drink from is considered standard, but not anything that could orshould be considered organic and non-toxic. After all, we are what we eat,eats.
Having overcome an incurable autoimmune condition 8 yearsago, I am always on the alert to anything potentially toxic to my health, andas a result, I carry that awareness into how I keep all my animals, furred andfeathered.Read more Posted byBulldogmaat12:00 AM7 comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestLabels:Feeder,Ginny Chandoha,Health,plastic,Waterer Monday, October 31, 2016 Meal Worms - High In Protein Posted byBulldogmaat3:04 PM7 comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Tuesday, September 29, 2015 Crossing the Road - The Adventure of Lucille the Chicken (Part VI) If you missed them, please see:


Crossing the Road - The Adventure of Lucille the Chicken(Part I)
Crossing the Road - The Adventure of Lucille the Chicken
(Part II)
Crossing the Road - The Adventure of Lucille the Chicken
(Part III)
Crossing the Road - The Adventure of Lucille the Chicken
(Part IV)Crossing the Road - The Adventure of Lucille the Chicken
(Part V)It would be dark soon, and Lucille needed to find a safe place to sleep. Tonight would be even darker than the last with almost no moon to speak of. Crossing the Road - The Adventure of Lucille the Chicken
(Part VI) Talk about a cliff hanger!! It has been almost exactly SIX MONTHS since we last saw poor Lucille trying to find her way back home after being carried off by a hungry hawk!
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Wet and bedraggled, Lucille searched for a safe place to roost for the night. Much to her luck, she found a wild, evergreen magnolia tree. The big, green leaves would help to hide her from the wide array of hungry nocturnal hunters she knew were already starting to prowl for the evening.
Read more Posted byBulldogmaat7:30 AM11 comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestLabels:Lucille Tuesday, March 31, 2015 Crossing the Road - The Adventure of Lucille the Chicken (Part V) If you missed them, please see:

Crossing the Road - The Adventure of Lucille the Chicken(Part I)
Crossing the Road - The Adventure of Lucille the Chicken
(Part II)
Crossing the Road - The Adventure of Lucille the Chicken
(Part III)Crossing the Road - The Adventure of Lucille the Chicken
(Part IV)
Coming out of the underbrush, Lucille almost fell right into a rushing mountain river. Lucilles heart sank.

Crossing the Road - The Adventure of Lucille the Chicken
(Part V)
The river was very wide and deep. The water churned white as it rushed over jagged rocks and multiple pieces of debris sped down the river as if they were racing each other to some unseen finish line. Lucille knew there would be no way she could safely cross... at least not here.
Read more Posted byBulldogmaat3:25 PM8 comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestLabels:Lucille Wednesday, March 25, 2015 Crossing the Road - The Adventure of Lucille the Chicken (Part IV) If you missed them, please see:


Crossing the Road - The Adventure of Lucille the Chicken(Part I)
Crossing the Road - The Adventure of Lucille the Chicken
(Part II)
Crossing the Road - The Adventure of Lucille the Chicken
(Part III)
How would she get across this space without attracting the attention of another hungry raptor. What if there were dogs? Or coyotes? Or foxes? The mountains were filled with predators of every kind who would love a fresh chicken dinner!

Crossing the Road - The Adventure of Lucille the Chicken (Part IV)Lucille gazed out over the pasture wondering how she could safely get to the other side. She knew that with her injuries she would not be able to outrun a predator, and that as a white chicken, she would be easily spotted out in the wide-open space.

Read more Posted byBulldogmaat5:50 PM10 comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestLabels:Lucille Tuesday, March 24, 2015 Crossing the Road - The Adventure of Lucille the Chicken (Part III) If you missed them, please see:

Crossing the Road - The Adventure of Lucille the Chicken
(Part I)


Crossing the Road - The Adventure of Lucille the Chicken
(Part II)
Given her temporary reprieve, Lucille allowed her eyes to close, and slipped into a fitful sleep.

Crossing the Road - The Adventure of Lucille the Chicken(Part III)As the first rays of sun peeked over the Virginia Blue Ridge mountains, Lucille began to stir. Only upon trying to move did she realize just how sore her little body was this morning. Her lungs ached when she drew her breath and she could feel each new scab that had developed over every scrape, cut and wound as she had slept.

Read more Posted byBulldogmaat3:40 PM7 comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestLabels:Lucille Monday, March 23, 2015 Crossing the Road - The Adventure of Lucille the Chicken (Part II)If you missed it, please see:
Crossing the Road - The Adventure of Lucille the Chicken
(Part I) here!


Taking no time to register just how high she was in a very, very high tree, Lucille jumped...


Crossing the Road - The Adventure of Lucille the Chicken(Part II)Branches ripped at her feathers and face as she fell downward, through the tree. Lucile used her wings to help slow her decent, but it did not lessen the sting of the sharp, leafless branches as they slashed her face and pulled feathers from her sides. Finally, after what seemed like hours, her fall ended with a hard thump into the mud and roots at the base of the tree, knocking the air from Lucilles lungs.

Above the male hawk took flight again, swooping downwards on swift, silent wings to retrieve his escaped prey.
Read more Posted byBulldogmaat2:22 PM6 comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestLabels:Lucille Sunday, March 22, 2015 Crossing the Road - The Adventure of Lucille the Chicken (Part I)Note: While the Natural Chicken Keeping blog is touted as a down-to-earth, no-nonsense chicken keeping resource, there are times that a blogger simply must break away from the norm. Every now and then seemingly fantastical circumstances from real life set the imagination alight with possibility. The story of Lucilles disappearance and homecoming is just such a circumstance.

While we may never know the real story - whether it be mundane or possibly even more exciting that the imaginative blog version, what we do know is that one very normal, simple chicken had a very unusual and dangerous adventure... and survived.


Crossing the Road - The Adventure of Lucille the Chicken(Part I)
I would like to introduce you to a rather extraordinary chicken by the name of Lucille.
Read more Posted byBulldogmaat3:08 PM5 comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestLabels:Lucille Thursday, February 26, 2015 A Bit of an UpdateYes - its been a while once again.

Winter has settled in and has made no indication it is willing to release its grip on the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains... yet. But the chickens and I hold out hope that spring will boot Old Man Winter out of the region very soon.

Read more Posted byBulldogmaat12:51 PM4 comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Wednesday, February 4, 2015 What a Great Gift for a Farmer! This year we received a wonderful gift in the form of some outerwear from Duluth Trading Company.


To be frank, with our finances the way they are, we would never have gone out and purchased these items for ourselves. In fact Ive been wearing the same old work coat for... NINE years, I think? It has seen better days, to say the least... especially in light of being worn all winter on a farm!
Read more Posted byBulldogmaat2:35 PM4 comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestLabels:Chicken Art,Duluth Trading,Hen Art,Rooster Art Tuesday, November 4, 2014 Digital Art - How to Draw Chickens Like a Boss... Or like a SAHM trying to pay bills...So this is the beginning of our rags to rich... ermmm... not-so-raggedy... story.

Back in late August my husband lost his job. Losing a job sucks. Especially when youve finally worked your way back up after losing everything just 7 years before to medical bills. Just when we thought we were hitting the big time in our new-to-us circa 1973 sexy single-wide that just happens to be on the most beautiful 2.7 acres in the Appalachian Mountains ever (yeah - OK... we were going to start building a home on our land in January of 2015) we crashed face-first into the mud!

I mean really? Even the brand name is some sort of strange misspelling...Read more Posted byBulldogmaat9:22 PM17 comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestLabels:Chicken Art,Hen Art,Rooster Art Friday, October 17, 2014 This Week In Chicken ArtI have plenty of great blog posts in my head, but until I get all my illustrations done, theyll have to stay in my head.

So instead, this is what I have done over the last 10 days:

Dark Cornish

Read more Posted byBulldogmaat11:35 PM7 comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestLabels:Chicken Art Wednesday, October 8, 2014 NCK Online Show Awards CeremonyWell - this post would have come out much sooner, but due to a glitch with Blogger, the entire post was erased when I was trying to post it the first time and I had to completely recreate it.Sorry for the delay!!
And with no further ado...
Read more Posted byBulldogmaat10:19 PM3 comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestLabels:Online Poultry Show Monday, October 6, 2014 Photo Shoot and How to Draw a Chicken... Or TwoWhat a fun and crazy weekend I have had!

Ever since my husband lost his job and my youngest became home-bound for fear she might catch the dreaded Enterovirus D68, we pretty much thought that FUN would be on hold for a while. Yet so much kindness and generosity has been shown to us in our recent hard times.

First, I have been offered a wonderful opportunity to provide 25 illustrations of various chicken breeds to GRIT Magazine for their annual Guide to Backyard Chickens issue. I have been working from sunup to sundown to get these illustrations done. Admittedly, its a bit stressful. This is a HUGE opportunity, and I have a very limited time. Im not used to banging artwork out so quickly! But as stressful as it is, Im positively thrilled to have this chance to have my artwork used in such an awesome magazine!

Read more Posted byBulldogmaat6:05 AM7 comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestLabels:Chicken Art Monday, September 29, 2014 Pictures of Chicks and Chicken Artwork - The SequelI have been seriously, ridiculously, over-the-top busy working on chicken breed artwork for GRIT Magazines 2015 Guide to Backyard Chickens Issue, and I have had little time to come up with awesome chicken keeping articles for you over the past days... So I hope you will enjoy a bit of visual fun instead.

One of my lovely Swedish Flower Hen pullets, Sofia, went broody at the ripe old age of 9 months and has hatched out a beautiful clutch of four chicks! Im quite sure she would have hatched five chicks, but unfortunately my 11-year-old daughter, who is in the autism spectrum, dropped one of the eggs about 4 days prior to hatch. We were both very sad about the loss, but everyone makes mistakes!

Were thrilled for the four that have hatched! Three of the four are out of my pullet Greta who took the title of Champion Pullet at a local county fair poultry show. (Read more about the show here.)

Look at these sweet babies!

(Both parents are BIG - but I didnt expect the chick to resemble a Rottweiler! Hee-hee-hee!)
Read more Posted byBulldogmaat5:36 PM9 comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestLabels:Chicken Art,Chicks Monday, September 22, 2014 Fall - The Best Time to Plant Garlic (Your Chickens Will Thank You!)
Fall is the best time to plant garlic - specifically just after the first frost. If you live in Australia, please flip this post upside down you you can read it better (and dont plant garlic until spring)... and if you happen to reside in a place like Grand Cayman, it probably isnt advisable to wait until after the first frost as it could indicate that Hell is finally freezing over - in which case planting garlic might be the least of your worries!
Read more Posted byBulldogmaat12:14 PM24 comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestLabels:garlic Wednesday, September 17, 2014 Chicken Artwork - Roosters and HensIn todays episode of You Show Me Yours and Ill Show You Mine...

Of course as you may know, we are hosting our first ever Online Poultry Show. Yes - we want to see YOUR chickens because we know how much you enjoy them and how special they are to you. We want you to show them off!
(You can click the photo link below for more details and to see the current entries!)


And since you going to show us yours, Ill show you mine!

Youve seen tons of photos of my own birds throughout this blog, so instead of showing you photos again, Ill show you some of the birds Ive been painting. Im going through a list of breeds and creating artwork based upon those breeds. I figure that by the time Im 103, Ill have at least a third of the known breeds translated into art form! (I hope.)

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