our happy healthy poultry

We are still learning. I feel certain we will never stop learning. Yet it still surprises me to see how many people haven't learned things that seem so obvious to me. We peaked at a neighbors chickens this morning while picking up some of last years hay to warm our hippity hops, and I feel so bad for those chickens. Don't get me wrong, they are well fed and watered; their confined area not overly piled with poo. But nonetheless they are confined, in a dirt pen, with glimpses of sunlight, and that is all. Just outside the door lies open field, lots of it, with grass and bugs just waiting to be eaten.

Our chickens are so much happier, and healthier.

I wish everyone knew that.

Until next time,

Angela Kelly

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