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▶ June 27, 2022 Pumpkins vs. the Heat — and a Summer Garden Update A tour of the summer garden, a little wild chick who is growing slowly, and a pickaxe-cracked pumpkin feast that the whole… ▶ June 25, 2022 So Many Ducks! Garden Blooms and a Duckling’s Leg Treatment A water station for picky ducklings, sweet peas and broccoli flowers in the garden, and a duckling with a curled-up foot gets… ▶ June 24, 2022 Seven Ducklings Arrive: “I Don’t Want Them, but I’ll Take Them” Our neighbor brings over seven ducklings he can't keep, the middle chicks get new low perches, and the little ducks take their… ▶ June 22, 2022 Garden Lettuce for the Flock — and Meet Parsley the Duckling Fresh lettuce from the garden is a hit again, Beanstalk the rooster rolls a duck egg, and meet Parsley, a duckling who… ▶ June 20, 2022 How Our Middle Chicks Settle In — and a Stray Who Wants to Move In? Fermented feed for breakfast, nervous young chicks perching up high, a lettuce free-for-all, Marron's changing voice, and a stray chicken helping itself… ▶ June 18, 2022 Kuro-chibi Is Back in the Field — and Scratch for a Treat Kuro-chibi and Chako return after recovering at home, sweet peas bloom, Fujiko molts under Piccolo's watch, Purin loses an egg to Bonbori,… ▶ June 17, 2022 A Day in the Life of Heart, Our Leader — and Fast-Growing Parsley Follow Heart on the job: morning crows, patrols, calling the hens to food, and stopping a fight with a single look. Plus… ▶ June 15, 2022 A New Quail for UZR48? And Sumi the Babysitter Shy chicks on their first stay at the farm, Sumi leads them into the shade, a runaway white quail meets UZR48, and… ▶ June 11, 2022 Broccoli on the Broccoli, a Baby Papaya and Chick Playtime Our broccoli finally made a broccoli, a blueberry starts turning purple, five wild-born chicks join playtime, and a friend plants a baby… ▶ June 10, 2022 Meet the Younger Chicks — and Kirin, 70 Days After Rescue You asked to meet the younger chicks, so here they are one by one: Marron, Chako, Ponyo, Banana, Cloud and little Kuro-chibi.… ▶ June 8, 2022 12 Chicks Graduate to the Grown-Ups’ Room — and Meet Turmeric A week in the bigger room, a mystery rooster in the nest box, quiet Turmeric and her blue eggs, and twelve young… ▶ June 6, 2022 Gentle Taro in the Bigger Playground — and Meet Walter Morning rounds on a cloudy day: Piccolo snubs the camera, Taro checks out the bigger playground, and meet Walter, a former fighting… ▶ June 3, 2022 DIY Expansion, Part Two: The Coops Double in Size We extended the coops to twice their size, with a new roof, more shade and lots of airy netting. A room tour… ▶ June 1, 2022 Meet Shiro, a Survivor — and Dolly Raids the Garden Again Meet Shiro, a snow-white rooster rescued from a parking lot with eyeworm. Then Dolly eats the cucumbers I'd been waiting for, so… May 31, 2022 Farm Notes — May 2022: Taro’s Chick Friends, Rescued Pigeon Chicks and a Tiny Snake Eight clips from May: Taro playing with the chicks, an egg caught the moment it was laid, a rooster double-take, pigeon chicks… ▶ May 30, 2022 A Wild Hen and Her Six Chicks Move In — and Meet Satoshi A friend's neighbors complained about wild chickens, so we took in a mother hen and her six chicks. Plus little Satoshi, a… ▶ May 29, 2022 Meet Pineapple, the Big-Combed Rooster — and a Wild Hen’s Chicks Pineapple is a small rooster with a huge comb, short legs and a soft spot for eggs. Plus: a wild mother hen… ▶ May 27, 2022 Finally Finished: A Hospital for Rescued Chickens, Built from Scrap With help from volunteers and almost entirely free scrap materials, we built an isolation "hospital" for sick or not-yet-tame chickens — 7… ▶ May 25, 2022 What’s This Called Again? Protecting Our Melons from Bugs Bugs have found our melons, so I cut away the rotten fruit and tied a little cradle of non-woven fabric around a… ▶ May 23, 2022 Twice the Room: We Expanded the Chickens’ Playground! With volunteers we doubled the chickens' playground, then let everyone out — including roosters who'd been kept apart. Cue some rooster drama. ▶ May 21, 2022 Happy the Pigeon Grows Up — and a Mystery Duckling Appears Happy, the baby pigeon from our Shorts, is growing up fast. And one morning a duckling turned up in the chickens' play… ▶ May 16, 2022 A Rainy Day at the Coop — the Ducks Are Loving It Real rain at last: Mint and Chive lay eggs and splash about, the chicks meet their first rain, the garden gets a… ▶ May 15, 2022 Cutie No. 1 and No. 2 — Is This Déjà Vu? Two lookalike Easter Eggers with lace-patterned feathers and sky-blue eggs: how to tell Cutie No. 1 and No. 2 apart. Plus a… ▶ May 14, 2022 Meet UZR48: Our Quail Groups, Colors and Bloodlines A tour of our quail: fourth-generation home-bred birds, Standard, Red Range and Texas A&M colors, jumbo quail, and how we keep the… ▶ May 13, 2022 Melons Growing — and Meet Marshmallow, Our Not-So-Gentle Orpington The melons are growing, and Marshmallow the Buff Orpington proves the breed books wrong: she screams, kicks and pecks. Plus the story… ▶ May 12, 2022 Episode 60: The Chicken Paradise Project Begins on Our New Land February 24, 2022: we signed the lease, borrowed a friend's truck, mowed grass taller than me, built our first coop on the… ▶ May 11, 2022 Who Lives in the Broccoli? — and Meet Yukinko, Our First Blue Egg Mystery holes in the broccoli, our first tomato flowers, and Yukinko — the Easter Egger who plucks her own tail and laid… ▶ May 10, 2022 Fresh Cucumbers, a Tiny Melon — and Meet Trumpet the Guardian A good cucumber harvest, a tiny bug-nibbled melon that's already melon inside, and Trumpet, the rooster found peeping under a trash bin… ▶ May 9, 2022 First Blueberries, Melon Flowers, Tiny Cucumbers — and Meet Bug 2 The blueberry bush finally has fruit, the melons finally have female flowers, little cucumbers are forming, and meet Bug 2, an orange… ▶ May 8, 2022 Feeding a Baby Pigeon Is Tricky — and Meet Cho, Our Gentle Hen Our baby pigeon gets a name and learns to peck, I explain pigeon milk, a dragonfly visits, and meet Cho, a mellow… ▶ May 7, 2022 Our New Quail Lay Their First Eggs — Each with Her Own Pattern First eggs from our two-month-old quail and why every quail's eggs have their own pattern, plus a harvest of strawberries, a cucumber… ▶ May 6, 2022 The Duck from the Sky Gets a Name — and Marron’s New Feathers Taro explores Dolly's trail, young Marron is losing his last chick fluff (and is definitely a rooster), and the duck that dropped… ▶ May 5, 2022 A Beach Walk with Pen-chan — and Meet Hachimitsu, Our Honey Hen Pen-chan's first trip to the ocean in three years, Hachimitsu the honey-colored Gold Star, how chickens dig with their feet, and why… ▶ May 4, 2022 Where Our Rescue Chicken Hospital Will Go — and Meet Echiseana Why Dolly is always chewing, meet Echiseana, a sturdy Black Star who goes her own way, and a look at the cleared… ▶ May 3, 2022 Our First Ripe Strawberry, Salaryman on Patrol — and Meet Punya A young rooster breaks out of his cage, Salaryman plays security guard, we harvest (and taste) our first real strawberry, three new… ▶ May 2, 2022 Pruning Cucumbers, Tiny Ponyo — and Meet Pro Wrestler A cane toad in the water dish, cucumber pruning with the chicks, a new baby chick named Ponyo, and Pro Wrestler —… ▶ May 1, 2022 The Great Cockroach Scramble — and Meet Wamekuko, Who Screams The little ones spend their first night alone at the farm, the flock goes wild over two cockroaches, chickens clean the duck… ▶ April 30, 2022 Peach Is Found, a Fly Trap Goes Up — and Meet Carl The runaway chick Peach is safe, I (clumsily) set up a fly trap, and meet Carl, a big Plymouth Rock rooster who… April 30, 2022 Farm Notes — April 2022: Taro’s Sand Bath, Sleepy Chicks and a Standing Sheep Six little clips from spring 2022: Taro digging into the perfect sand, a sleeping chick, a chick versus a mailing box, bathing… ▶ April 29, 2022 Four Half-Grown Chicks Need a Home — Wait, Another Poppy? Our quail get a roommate, I introduce Taiyo, a hen with a rooster's build, and we take in half-grown chicks from someone… ▶ April 28, 2022 Golden Tsuki, a Rooster Named Kirin, and a Sulky Dolly Tsuki was a tiny chick covered in ants when I rescued her — now she's golden. Plus our roadside rooster gets a… ▶ April 27, 2022 Dolly’s Little Escape, a Duck Egg Scramble — and Meet Ginny Dolly slips out for a grass feast, I finally taste Mint's duck eggs as a scramble, and meet Ginny, the hen who… ▶ April 26, 2022 Two Rescued Chicks, How Feathers Change — and Meet Sonatine Two new arrivals: a chick whose broken leg was fixed by a kind rescuer, and a tiny black chick. Plus how chicks… ▶ April 25, 2022 Our Wobbly Chick Gets a Name, Mint’s Second Egg — and Meet Namiko One week on, our wobbly chick isn't wobbly anymore — meet Chako! Plus cucumber and honeydew flowers, Mint's second duck egg, and… ▶ April 24, 2022 First Lettuce Harvest, a Homemade Feeder — and Meet Poppy 2 Some lettuce started to bolt, so the chickens got our first harvest. Plus a homemade feeder that holds about 30 kg, a… ▶ April 23, 2022 Rainy-Day Dolly, Romaine and Cucumber Flowers — and Meet Shachi Pumpkin works hard to lay, Dolly hides from the rain, the romaine is huge, the cucumbers bloom and the chicks get a… ▶ April 22, 2022 Marron’s Fluff, Our Duck’s First Egg — and Meet Kuromame Marron turns out to be a rooster and gets help with his chick fluff, a chayote seed sprouts, our duck lays her… ▶ April 21, 2022 What’s on Star’s Head? Plus a 24-Gram Chick and Its Egg Tooth Rainy-day mud baths, an answer about the feathers on Star's head, a tiny chick found crying at our front door, what an… ▶ April 20, 2022 Papaya Day, Dolly in the Garden — and Meet Iruka I knock down a neighbor's papaya with a bug net and share it with the flock, Dolly helps herself to my tomato… ▶ April 19, 2022 Five New Nest Boxes, Iruka’s Odd Feathers — and Meet Lilac The nest boxes got so crowded that five birds tried to share one room, so I built five new ones from scrap…