Fancy plastic egg container

I splurged on a fancy plastic egg holder for the fridge.  This one is by Fridge Binz.  Pretty cool.  And bleachable -- which is important because we put the eggs straight from the coop into the fridge without rinsing off the bloom (which also means we don't rinse off the poo).  

This was a complete luxury because certainly free cardboard ones work just a well.  But it's so pretty and clean...

The Mysterious Production of Eggs

Somebody laid a weird one!  This egg had only a soft, squishy "shell".  We gave the girls some more oyster shells for calcium in case this is a symptom of that.  More likely, it's just a weird, one-off.

Awesome new urban farming shop in Clintonville

We just stopped by City Folks up in Beechwold and it was really great. It's a cute little locally owned shop with rain barrel supplies, gardening, bee keeping, cheese making & chicken feeding supplies too. Check em out!

Diatomaceous earth camo

Joan is pretty well camouflaged after dusting the run with diatomaceous earth. It's our new anti-fly strategy. Apparently food-grade diatomaceous earth (basically the dust of ground up diatoms -- who knew this even existed!?) will kill grubs & larva of flies by both cutting them & desiccating them. Not so lovely - but it seems better than those poison traps we used last year. I'd love to dust the compost but I have a hunch it'd kill the worms, too. Does anybody know?

Chicken-ready house for rent

Have you always dreamed of owning your own chickens?  Now your most fervent dream can come true.  We're renting our house in South Bexley which boasts a secure chicken run and chicken-friendly zoning.  We'll even throw in a rabbit hutch that we used as an auxiliary coop.
Oh, and the house isn't too shabby either: https://sites.google.com/site/havenwoodhouse/

Springtime!

The chickens are loving the spring weather. All this dampness makes me think we may have to get the fly traps up early this year - for our own sake and that of good neighbor relations.

Which one of these is not like the others?

Somebody laid a gigantic egg!