Category Archives: Chickens

Chicken Hypnosis

Chicken Hypnosis

A little over a week ago, at JR’s behest, I began researching humane ways to kill chickens. When JR was a wee person, he worked at a neighborhood farm, and had slaughtered chickens using the old “axe-and-tree-stump” method, but, in addition to being plain old messy and dangerous, it’s not terribly humane, and so weContinue Reading

Chicken Husbandry

Chicken Husbandry

I tend to the chickens at our house as often as JR cooks dinner. Which is to say, next to never, and only as an absolute necessity of survival – either the chickens’ or ours, as the case may be. In fact, JR usually does whatever he is able to keep me from tending toContinue Reading