As of Tuesday night I am now back to sleeping in my bed, with my husband.  It is great.  Since last Thursday, I had been sleeping with the chickens.  On the floor, in the shed, where the smell of chicken poo had been steadily increasing…

Today was not a good day to be a chicken at Tubby Creek Farm. To get the full story, we need to back up a day.  Yesterday, we moved the Cornish Rocks into their new digs – the chicken tractor.  We had just finished it…

THE CHICKS ARE HERE!  This morning the post office called at 7:00 am to let us know our chicks had arrived.  Randy said he could here them peeping in the background. Our chicks are here?!?!?! After being anxious all day yesterday I was surprised to…

I figured I was long over due in giving an update on the Big Freeze of a week or so ago.  The good news is that plants can be surprisingly resilient!  We had some burned cabbage leaves in the greenhouse, loss of some of our…