WMRA: Seven Myths about Urban Chickens (2011-05-20) This wonderful NPR special about keeping Urban Chickens…take a listen and be informed! Thanks for supporting us at Wish We Had Acres Farm!

Finally our second pregnant doe Pocket Change aka Pookie kidded around 1:30am Saturday May 21. We suspected that Pookie would kid within 24 hrs as her mucus plug was released earlier that afternoon. We waited in anticipation all day checking in on her almost every hour to see if any progress had been made… Nothing on Friday but we were still hopeful. We decided to hit the sack around midnight, leaving the backdoor open so we could hear...

Well it’s been quite awhile since we last posted…firstly we moved to a new location in downtown central Phoenix. The lot is just shy of a quarter acre. We moved into a house adjacent to a condo community and some of them loved it and some hated it…which of course made our lives a living hell for awhile. In an effort to accommodate their aesthetic we built a new and improved chicken coop, installed several raised bed gardens...

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2 of our new little faces peering down at you. Growing fast and newly debudded, our 3 little ones are fast approaching 2 weeks old already! One girl and two boys. Boomer is the proud new mom and we hope Pockets will birth soon… she looks ready to...