タグ: Pen-chan

▶ September 20, 2024 Six Years With Chickens: New Easter Eggers, Fifi’s Salad, and a Memory Three young Easter Eggers join us, Fifi gets a salad, the baby tortoises grow slowly, and a shared papaya brings back how… June 30, 2024 Farm Notes — June 2024: Rescued Kittens, Julietta’s Ducklings and Frankie Thirty little clips from June: five rescued kittens, Julietta's fast-growing ducklings, a sing-along drive with chicks, memories of Sonata and Frankie the… January 31, 2024 Farm Notes — January 2024: Surprise Brown Eggs, Rainy Days and a Cat Masseuse Eleven little clips from January: our Leghorn mix lays brown eggs, the chickens wait out the rain, tiny chicks feed themselves, Ao… ▶ February 25, 2023 Sad News: Our Old Farm Car Broke Down The 2002 minivan a kind stranger gave us has finally given out, stalling in a highway tunnel with Pen-chan and a kitten… ▶ February 1, 2023 How to Keep Happy Chickens, Part 2: What We Feed Part two of our happy-chicken series: why we use crumble feed, how to check the crop and body condition, good treats —… January 31, 2023 Farm Notes — January 2023: Pen-chan’s New Year, the Freshest Egg on Rice and Marching Ducks Fourteen little clips from January: a New Year greeting from Pen-chan, a one-minute-fresh egg on rice, chicks on the move, busy cats,… ▶ January 30, 2023 How to Keep Happy Chickens, Part 1: Their Living Space Part one of our happy-chicken series: space, perches, nest boxes, bedding and poop, and how many roosters and hens to keep —… ▶ December 30, 2022 Looking Back on 2022, Our First Year on the New Farm A quiet evening with the flock, Iroha hoping someone will play, and a look back at our first year on the new… ▶ December 24, 2022 Christmas Presents for Everyone at Chicken Paradise Merry Christmas from sunny Hawaii! Treats for the cats, a sweet potato chew for Iroha, a grape party for the chickens, and… ▶ December 14, 2022 Morning at the Coop, Taro’s Story, and a Monarch Caterpillar A damp morning: breakfast for everyone, chicks in the sun, cats eyeing the guinea pigs. Then meet Taro, our Rhode Island Red,… ▶ December 12, 2022 Our 2023 Calendar Arrives — Plus a Pigeon Nursery Update Our 2023 Chicken Paradise calendar finally reached our house, glossy and beautiful. Then a check on Happy's chicks, the white pigeons' babies… November 30, 2022 Farm Notes — November 2022: Pen-chan Going Strong, Baby Taro and Kittens in the Feed Box Thirteen clips from November: Pen-chan going strong after two broken legs, Taro at three months, Natsu all grown up, chicken bodyguards, kittens,… ▶ November 21, 2022 Our 2023 Chicken Calendar: A Year With the Flock, Month by Month Our 2023 Chicken Paradise calendar was finished! A month-by-month tour, from Hare-chan crowing on the cover to a December full of Pen-chan. ▶ November 14, 2022 A Rabbit from the Shelter Joins Us — and 22 Chicks Thrive All 22 of this month's chicks are growing up, Pineapple moves rooms on his own, and we welcome Usa-chan, a rabbit from… ▶ November 4, 2022 After the Storm — and Bun-chan the Java Sparrow Flies Free Cleaning up after a downpour, a fifth turtle with a bent shell, Pen-chan tramples my bok choy, and Bun-chan the Java sparrow… ▶ October 15, 2022 Goodbye, Orihime — and the Story Behind Abandoned Silkies Our Silkie hen Orihime has passed away. Soon after, unwanted Silkie roosters and a Silkie half-breed came to us — and why… ▶ October 12, 2022 Turning 18: New Flowers, a Lemon Cake and a Solo Birthday Song It's my 18th birthday! I buy flowers for the farm, sing Happy Birthday to myself over a lemon cake, and share what… ▶ October 8, 2022 Who Will Eat Our Homegrown Sunflower Seeds? A sunflower that sprang up in the vegetable patch gives us seeds, so I offer them to Sora, Pen-chan, the guinea pigs… ▶ October 1, 2022 Meet the Whole Family: Every Animal at Chicken Paradise Hawaii A full tour of who lives here: about 200 chickens, ducks, pigeons, guinea fowl, quail, Java sparrows, cats, a dog, guinea pigs… ▶ September 28, 2022 Trying a New Organic Feed — Pen-chan Says No Thanks Chicks and ducklings share the potato field, our guinea fowl are growing up, and I bring home a new organic feed that… ▶ September 2, 2022 A Taste of Japan: The Flock Tries Feed from a Japanese Farm Someone I know shared a bag of feed made by a chicken farm in Japan. I taste it first, then Pen-chan, the… August 31, 2022 Farm Notes — August 2022: Pen-chan Turns Four, Walter the Survivor and Cats vs. Chickens Fourteen clips from August: Pen-chan at four, a broody hen calming down, Walter the cockfighting survivor, a chameleon-eyed chicken, cats vs. chickens… ▶ August 29, 2022 A Hen Hit by a Car: Caring for Her with Tube Feeding Marron's sibling, a hen who grew up wild near my house, was hit by a car. How I'm caring for her —… ▶ August 24, 2022 Taro’s Foot Spa — and Pool Time for the Ducks Why chickens' leg scales sometimes need a little help coming off, Taro gets his big feet pampered, a praying mantis shows up,… ▶ August 17, 2022 Tiny Chicks from Iolani Palace — and Meet B-chan Three tiny orphaned chicks found at Iolani Palace come to the farm, and meet B-chan, a long-legged girl with a cartoon-style crest. ▶ July 25, 2022 Today’s Chicken Corner: Pen-chan, the Chicken Who Started It All Meet Pen-chan, the very first chicken I rescued: her family, her rocky start, a badly broken leg, and why she now rules… ▶ July 23, 2022 Our 100th Episode: How It All Began, and Where We’re Going For our 100th video: how one tiny chick in the mud started everything, how 83 chickens found a new home in two… ▶ June 29, 2022 Pool Rehab for Our Duckling — and How to Grow a Pineapple Top Our duckling with the curled foot comes back from home care and starts swimming rehab, new cucumber seeds sprout, and the old… ▶ 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… ▶ 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 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… ▶ 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 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 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…