Tag Archives: Chickens
Spending Time Together, 24/7
By Michelle Mather A couple of months ago Cam wrote here about how hard it is to get back into the “working for someone else” mode. He had been temporarily working down the road at our neighbour’s woodshop. When he first floated the idea of working for our neighbour for a few weeks I thought …
It’s Getting Harder to Sleep In Around Here….
By Michelle Mather Ever since we acquired our 4 chickens last May, friends have been asking us if we planned on getting a rooster. I’ve read both pros and cons to having a rooster as part of a flock, but I was undecided on whether or not we should add one. Then people began offering …
Measured Out in Coffee Spoons
By Cam Mather In my on-going “life as a song lyric” series, where I live vicariously through music, I was recently taken back to my suburban life. It was one of those “angry Cam” days when a whole series of things had me in a pissy mood… climate change/idiots & morons/May weather in March exposing …
My Recent Reality Checks
By Cam Mather Once again I’d like to thank everyone who reads and comments on the blog. Yesterday I had one of those personal epiphanies thanks to our reader Amy. She was commenting on the video blog that we posted about how our chickens had faired this winter. She wrote: “What a great video! I’m …
A Recent Video Shoot
Guest Post by Michelle Mather Today’s post is a little different. It’s more of a video post. The other day Cam and I decided that we needed to shoot some video of our chickens in the winter. There was a fresh layer of snow on the ground which helped to make things look a little …
From Flat Tires to Newfound Friends
By Cam Mather I’ve often written about the people who show up at our door because we’re the only house on a 10 kilometer stretch of deserted road. We’ve always done what we can to help them. I’ve always contended that one day the shoe would be on the other foot, so I’d better go …
Calculating the ROI of Our Chickens
By Michelle Mather As you might know from reading previous posts on this blog, Cam and I acquired 4 laying hens in May. We had always toyed with the idea of having our own chickens, but we didn’t know anything about looking after them and so we kept “chickening out.” We both eat a vegetarian …
The Chickens Have Arrived!
By Cam Mather Michelle and I have been vegetarian for 21 years now and more recently we’ve started to eliminate dairy products from our diet as well. Now that there are so many alternatives to dairy products and they are much easier to obtain, we feel better not eating dairy for a number of reasons. …
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