The chickens have flown the coop.
There is one tough red bird hanging on, and I have my suspicions that ‘she’ is a ‘he’ The comb is getting bigger and the tail feathers getting longer and longer all the time.
Farm Animals
Dog Eats Chick
Okay, dogs gotta eat. But I feed them well, I feed them ‘good’ dogfood. I spend entirely too much money on it. Fresh chicken was not what I had in mind.
Mooooooom! Can we get some baby chicks?
Okay. So I moved to town. I sold out… through no real choice of my own (long story) I moved from out in the country with five acres and a large home to a small town. Yes, we are large enough to have a ‘Wal-Mart’ and we recently even got our own Lowe’s store… wow. …
The Animal Farm Accountability Question
Old Big Brother Had a Farm: A USDA plan to attach microchips to every farm animal in America has some small-scale farmers worried Grist Magazine Mar. 27, 2006 If only Orwell could get a load of this. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is promoting a system that would have farm animal owners and livestock handlers …
The High Cost of Animal Agriculture
Thanks to Susan Weiner at Farm Sanctuary for pointing us to that organization’s network of websites — this has to be one of the most comprehensive resources available on factory farming, animal rights, vegetarianism, and many other related topics. Some of the more interesting resources found were the information from FactoryFarming.com on the environmental and …