Critter Geek

Wow!

Today Steve and I spent the morning touring…chicken coops!
Generous members of the California Wine Country Chicken Chat group opened their coops to others in the group for an informal tour of member coops. It was a great chance to see how other build their coops and manage their flocks of chickens. And we saw [...]

Volume 13 of MAKE Magazine has hit the newstands, and it includes an article I wrote about raising backyard laying hens, Backyard Hens…that link takes you directly to the article in the MAKE Digital Edition – read it online!
Here’s some additional resources and links to supplement the article.
Equipment and Supplies (including coops)
California Wine Country Chicken [...]

If you like Critter Geek, you definitely want to follow the blog of Julie Zickefoose, author of one of my favorite books, Letters From Eden: A Year at Home, in the Woods.
Recently, she’s been posting about her visit to a goat dairy.

In the Milking Parlor
Goat #43
The Authors of It All

I could really get into [...]