Mama hen and baby at Busy Solitude Farm
It was created by keen chicken keeper and gardener Johanna, at her smallholding in Galien, Michigan. Johanna says she “always wanted to live the rural life, since I was a wee one”. With a barn full of chickens and ducks, and the rest of the place ruled by cats and dogs, Johanna certainly lives a rural way of life.
It started back in 2007 with one Rooster Egglebert, 17 hens and little chick named Chick-Chuck. She has kept a wide variety of chickens over the last three years including Indian Runners, Ameraucanas, Golden Laced Wyandottes, Black Australorp and Cuckoo Marans.
But it didn’t stop at chickens. Johanna also acquired some runner ducks earlier this year, which are looking great, as well as five co-perching swallows.
There are some really fascinating posts here, with all sorts on offer, including Johanna falling off a roof (we hope those bruises have gone), the account of a chicken autopsy, and tales of her chicken herding French Sheepdogs (say it fast – friendship dogs).
This is a charming and well kept account of Johanna’s life and her ‘hormonal hens’. For sharing her chicken dilemnas and enthusiasm we make Busy Solitude Farm our Chicken Keeping Blog of the Week.
