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Michael Jackman
Singer-Songwriter, Multi-instrumentalist, & Poet

Tagged: homesteading

r.i.p. Sasha: my encounter with a great horned owl

We had a homestead emergency when a Great Horned Owl got into the chicken run.  The three older chickens like to roost outside, right under the roof of deer netting, and the owl looks like it made a hole in one corner. It killed one of them, poor Sasha. I...

Happy Hanukkah and Our First Egg

This evening begins Hanukkah, candle 1, and guess what? Our newly raised chickens laid their first egg. How appropriate, a blue Hanukkah egg from the “Easter Egger” chicken breed. A multicultural egg for sure! It was delicious!  We have 6 chickens – 2 “Easter Eggers”, 2 Speckled Sussex, and 2...