Articles by Back2MyRoots

This little endeavor started MONTHS ago, when I finally badgered my husband enough and he agreed to let me have chickens! I took off for the feed store in town and bought 6 little fuzz balls before he could change his mind. The chickie darlings lived in our guest bathroom for almost 5 weeks...

Well, it has come to my realization that the chicken coop is just like high school. Well, my chicken coop anyway............ In high school, you have the popular girls. And in that group of "populars" there is one alpha girl. In the coop, those popular girls would be the head hens, with their...

When I was a little girl, my grandparents grew a large amount of the food that we ate. Fresh fruits and veggies in the summer and lovely canned goods that my MawMaw put up in the winter. They didn't raise chickens themselves, but aunts and uncles did so there was always farm fresh eggs to...