My Pet Chicken Blog

Oh the French… they have some of the most wonderful sauces I have ever tasted, and yet they’re often quite complicated to make. Hollandaise sauce is among my favorites, but my schedule and lack of patience had me turning to the grocery store packet mix when I have a craving for eggs Benedict. I hated [...]

Here’s an article I recently wrote about grocery store egg labels for dLife, a wonderful online resource for folks with diabetes. Many chicken-keepers are already aware of the difference “cage-free” and conventional eggs—and that’s part of the motivation for keeping chickens. For you who aren’t aware, this one’s for you. Checking out the egg case [...]

Are you making anything special for Valentine’s Day using your fresh eggs? At my house, it’s Chocolate Rum Balls. I’ve been looking at this recipe for a while. It’s more or less a batch of brownies baked until not quite done, broken up into crumbs, and then mixed with dark rum until it holds together [...]

This year I baked a gingerbread chicken coop. Now I’m kicking myself. Why haven’t I ever made a gingerbread chicken coop before?! Every year, my daughter  and I decorate gingerbread cookies for the holidays.

The winter solstice is coming, and boy am I ready!  At this time every year, I look forward to making eggnog from my pet chickens. In fact, we love to celebrate the seasons with our chickens. In the spring, I color eggs. In the summer, we have deviled eggs at every picnic. In the fall, I tend to [...]

Now is the time to get pumpkins for chickens. Scoop up all the left over, cheap pumpkins you can find from the grocery stores and farmers markets. They should be cheap now, or perhaps even free! Chickens just love them and they are a nutritional powerhouse for our fine feathered flockers. Pumpkins are loaded with [...]

To wash eggs or not to wash eggs… that is the question! Except that it’s not much of a question for me. Washing eggs is something that can be on the risky side, if you do it wrong, so I don’t wash my eggs unless they’re soiled. Even then, I don’t wash them unless they’re [...]

How egg-citing: I finally got bento egg molds for my daughter’s bento box.  It’s an easy way to add a cute touch to a bento lunch—and it’s an especially yummy and nutritious way to do it if you have your own backyard eggs.  Check it: You may remember that I shared a cute deviled eggs [...]

It’s that time of year—the autumnual equinox is upon us! If you started chicks early this spring, you may just now be seeing your flock’s first backyard eggs, since most breeds begin laying when hens reach around 6 months old.  We celebrate this time of year at our house in a variety of ways, but [...]

We as a family are generally pretty frugal. We like making the most of what we get into the house. This goes double for our foods. We like to use fresh vegetables as often as we can. In an effort to follow my Mom’s wise mantra “waste not, want not”, we give the scraps from [...]