We’ve had some new additions whose arrival has been overshadowed by the frolicking kids. A fellow backyard farmer had a chicken go ‘broody’ and before she knew it she had seven home hatched baby chicks!! She didn’t have room at the inn, so we took them. They all take after their roo-dad, who is an Australian Black Orpington, aka Austral-orp, but some are feathering out different colors.They tend travel in a pack and look...

Great tip on raw milk podcast ‘More Hip Than Hippie’. Two additional links with info about where to find raw milk across the nation and the rough time raw milk is having politically. I’m sure this blog will now be flagged for my posting this. Health before politics,...

Final photo before the coming of age ceremony. So much cute over here. stage left to stage right – Flopsie, Dahlia, Timothy and Copper… for...

Our little ones are growing up so fast! Boom-boom’s kids are 4 weeks old already and teaching the new guys the ropes. Just over a week old, Pockets’ kiddos were due for their debudding. Farmer Dave decided that he’d seen the process enough times it’d be just as well to save ourselves the expense and long drive by doing the debudding on our urban farm. Not my favorite decision. I’m just as happy to have that...

This week we began milking Boomer…separating her kids from her at night for about 12hrs.  About 5:30a she begins calling out to us saying “Hey WAKE UP, I’m HONGRY and so are my BABIES and I am gonna be annoying until you wake up!”  This is Boomer’s very loud opinion…did we say she is also known as Oprah?!  😉 Boomer surprised us all when we milked her officially for the first time…she produced just...

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!