Comments on: Poetry Friday: Celebrating free range chickens http://farmschool.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/poetry-friday-celebrating-free-range-chickens/ "There are two types of education... One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live." John Adams Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:59:02 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: cloudscome http://farmschool.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/poetry-friday-celebrating-free-range-chickens/#comment-602 cloudscome Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:01:31 +0000 http://farmschool.wordpress.com/?p=1141#comment-602 Someday I want to keep chickens. I don't know about the foxes... I have always loved the phrase "steal her nest" - like it isn't hers? Ha. Someday I want to keep chickens. I don’t know about the foxes… I have always loved the phrase “steal her nest” – like it isn’t hers? Ha.

]]> By: Lynnie http://farmschool.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/poetry-friday-celebrating-free-range-chickens/#comment-601 Lynnie Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:43:48 +0000 http://farmschool.wordpress.com/?p=1141#comment-601 What a great poem! One that I will have to share with my daughters when they get up. We deal with raccoons a lot here and have a nesting pair of red-tailed hawks right above our chicken pen, so we know about predators! Great resources on your website. I'm about to poke through. What a great poem! One that I will have to share with my daughters when they get up. We deal with raccoons a lot here and have a nesting pair of red-tailed hawks right above our chicken pen, so we know about predators! Great resources on your website. I’m about to poke through.

]]> By: Chris in PEI http://farmschool.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/poetry-friday-celebrating-free-range-chickens/#comment-599 Chris in PEI Sat, 07 Jun 2008 01:36:33 +0000 http://farmschool.wordpress.com/?p=1141#comment-599 Great poem! I can't wait to share it with the kids. We have had our 25 new chicks (Australorps, Delawares, and Speckled Sussex) for two weeks now. One son made the new roof for the insulated former doghouse they are now in --let's just say he learned a lot about installing window glass for a skylight, and the other son is making a chicken tractor for mid-summer and beyond. His plans look very impressive and this is going to be a lesson in sticking to deadlines, alright. Right now the chicks go out in the sunniest part of the day in the dog's old pen. They are so funny to watch. My 10 yo dd is chief chicken wrangler and protectress. Our dog is old and lame, so she's not helping in the fox-deterrent category, and she never used the doghouse or the pen, preferring to dig up the ferns next to the house and sleep in the dirt. I loved that picture of your chickens with the watermelon rinds and such from the winter -- it was so colorful it sticks in my mind, and I hope my birds are half as happy as yours. Sorry about the one that got foxed. Great poem! I can’t wait to share it with the kids. We have had our 25 new chicks (Australorps, Delawares, and Speckled Sussex) for two weeks now. One son made the new roof for the insulated former doghouse they are now in –let’s just say he learned a lot about installing window glass for a skylight, and the other son is making a chicken tractor for mid-summer and beyond. His plans look very impressive and this is going to be a lesson in sticking to deadlines, alright.

Right now the chicks go out in the sunniest part of the day in the dog’s old pen. They are so funny to watch. My 10 yo dd is chief chicken wrangler and protectress.

Our dog is old and lame, so she’s not helping in the fox-deterrent category, and she never used the doghouse or the pen, preferring to dig up the ferns next to the house and sleep in the dirt.

I loved that picture of your chickens with the watermelon rinds and such from the winter — it was so colorful it sticks in my mind, and I hope my birds are half as happy as yours.

Sorry about the one that got foxed.

]]> By: JoVE http://farmschool.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/poetry-friday-celebrating-free-range-chickens/#comment-598 JoVE Sat, 07 Jun 2008 01:10:32 +0000 http://farmschool.wordpress.com/?p=1141#comment-598 I don't know is raising chickens a bit like growing some of the veg other beasts like to eat? Can we grow enough for us and the foxes? Especially if it is only occasional. I don’t know is raising chickens a bit like growing some of the veg other beasts like to eat? Can we grow enough for us and the foxes? Especially if it is only occasional.

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