The recent killing frost has us backyard farmers recalibrating. After a bountiful summer with heady blooms and eggs aplenty, the hens are holding back, and tired plants are nodding their […]
BARNYARD CONFIDENTIAL
What Does a Rooster Mean by Crowing?
Outsize randiness, gallant tidbitting, and other mysteries of the male of the species
When I was a new high-schooler, a boy called Rooster had an unrequited crush on me. I did not understand him. Now a middle-aged backyard chicken farmer, I’m still trying […]
BARNYARD CONFIDENTIAL
A Flock Provides Beauty, Bounty, and the Occasional Unsolved Mystery
A freakish egg keeps a poultry farmer’s pride in check
TRURO — A small-flock poultry farmer can be forgiven for priding herself on the beauty, health, and productivity of her flock. At least I hope so, because such hubris has […]
