Chicken Paradise Hawaii

タグ: Kin-chan

May 3, 2024 Rooster News, Busy Senior Hens — and the Guppies We Thought Were Gone Iruka moves back indoors, the senior hens start laying again, and the duckweed pond hides a wonderful surprise: around 50 baby guppies. December 12, 2023 Chickens Are Amazing: How a Mother Hen Raises Her Chicks From laying a clutch to the day she declares 'done': how wild hens in Hawaii raise their chicks, what makes a good… May 20, 2023 Another Cold, a Week of Driving, and Chickens Outside the Net I've caught another cold, so the chickens hear all about it. Plus a week of driving myself, molting birds, mealworm deliveries, and… March 17, 2023 A Baby Pigeon Joins the Loft, and Happy’s Husband Is Too Intense A young pigeon with a broken leg, found under a car, joins our pigeon house, where Happy's husband gives it a hard… March 11, 2023 A Guide to Chicken Combs: Straight, Pea, Rose, Walnut — and None Straight, pea, rose and walnut: our muddy-footed flock models the different kinds of chicken combs, and I explain what combs are for… February 3, 2023 How to Keep Happy Chickens, Part 3: Everyday Health Care The last part of our happy-chicken series: a health check with Kin-chan, trimming nails and beaks, Basil's parasite patrol, heat and cold,… November 16, 2022 Sorry, Gin-chan: Kin-chan Gets a New Partner, Kintaro Young birds are roaming outside the coop, and a tiny bantam rooster I found asleep in the road at 1 a.m. becomes… September 16, 2022 Growing Bananas, Ragged Roosters, and the Real First Chick Team Our banana plants are getting huge, the roosters are now molting, and a correction: here is the real first-generation Chick Open Team. August 31, 2022 We Gave the Chickens a Whole Watermelon! Our sunflowers bloomed, so it's officially summer — and summer means watermelon. What happens when the whole flock gets one? A few… August 20, 2022 Wheat Party! How Fast Can the Flock Eat Three Weeks of Grass? I open up the wheat grass I've been growing in a cage and let the flock have a party. Meet Ringo the… July 11, 2022 How to Toughen Up a Papaya Tree — and a Flock Full of Personalities Why I give our young papaya tree a good shake, plus a morning of sand baths, a crowded nest box, Kin-chan's egg… 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… 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… April 5, 2022 Plumeria’s Chick Gets a Name — and Meet Gin-chan, Our Oldest Hen The injured rooster opens his eye, a blueberry bush joins the garden, Plumeria's chick is named Ilima, and Gin-chan, our oldest hen,… March 29, 2022 Repotting Calamansi, Baby Quail Arrive — and Meet Kin-chan A rainy day: our calamansi gets a bigger pot, four baby jumbo quail move in, and I tell the story of Kin-chan…