Links





Principles of Feeding Small Flocks of Chickens at Home
Chickens stop eating after they eat a certain quantity of energy in a day. Even if they have not eaten enough vitamins or protein.


Jack Horner (Paleontologist): Building a Dinosaur from a Chicken
Ted Talk: Reactivate Ancestral Traits


The Hen Cam
There is also a link to a Goat Cam and a Hen Blog on the page.


Henderson's Handy Dandy Chicken Breed Chart
A list of Chicken Breeds with comparative information


How to identify chicken predators
This link will also take you to BackYard Chickens 


Here is a link to evaluating egg laying hens:
How to tell when and if a chicken is laying eggs.


Here is a link to a site that has photos of Hugelkulture - making a raised bed with organic material.








This link is to a video about creativity.
Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity, here.
Whether I'm working on a quilt or the chicken coop, a DIY project, gardening, blogging, etc., I like to have that freedom of expression available that I had as a child when I didn't have the worry of whether my ideas were good enough. I loved it when I had an idea and went with it.