From the backyard

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Stories, updates, and the occasional dispatch from life with thirty hens and a goat named Babka.

Today's adventure was brought to you by one Polish chicken who decided the coop was simply too limiting for a bird of her sophistication.

The best way to start keeping chickens is to keep it simple. Practical advice from years of backyard chicken keeping in Westport, Connecticut.

Chickens are a delicious meal for foxes, hawks, bobcats, and raccoons. Here is how to keep your flock safe.

Once they have imprinted the coop as home, you can let your chickens roam the yard. Here is how to start, and how to balance freedom and protection.

~ more notes coming ~