Chicken Paradise Hawaii

Farm Diary

Every episode from our YouTube channel, written up in English — new chicks, brave roosters, garden projects and the occasional escape.

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 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 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 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…