Take a tour though the hen reproductive tract.

Take a tour through the chicken digestion process.

Since we cannot go for walks (yet!), Skye burns off energy by zooming around the yard, playing tag and tug. This is one of the best...

We started a new type of exercises with Skye: the pattern games. They are games with a fixed pattern of multiple steps that gets repeated...

Taking a break from all the training and enjoying Californian winters :)

The master digger. Not the best companion to the master gardener. LOL But imagine the pleasure of digging in the soil after all those...

Another one of our exercises is to teach Skye to touch things (eventually the leash) by herself. Start only with a towel on your knee or...

Bedding is an important part of keeping your chickens happy and healthy. In the hen house, the bedding provides a soft surface for the...

Instead of using aromatic wood shavings like cedar and pine that are toxic to chickens, you can add certain herbs to the bedding in the...

A plant-based version of the famous Italian pasta sauce with a French twist. Ingredients: * 1 onion, diced * 1 bell pepper, diced * a...

One of our training exercises is to get Skye to put her head in a bucket. The idea is get used to put her head in/through things (end...

We are officially declaring today to be the end of Skye's phantom pregnancy! Leopardo got kicked out of the nest 2 days ago, and this...

Smoky, salty, crispy bits without killing a pig. Ingredients: * avocado oil (or any vegetable oil with a high smoke point) * 8 oz firm...

Now that Skye is out of her nest-nook, we are resuming training. And we have a few new exercises. The first one is nose targeting....

Over the long weekend, Skye started to leave her nest-nook more and spend more time with us outdoors (we had unusually warm weather)....

I found nesting a cute symptom of phantom pregnancy, but I find self-nursing quite weird...

La galette des rois (aka the French king cake) is a puff pastry filled with frangipane. It's baked throughout January in France to...

While we are working with our VB and vet to figure out what's going on with Skye, she is bringing more toys into her nook... Look what we...

We haven't talked to our VB yet but I am really starting to think that Skye may be going through a phantom pregnancy. Her 4 lower teats...

Something is off with Skye. For the last 5 days, she has been hiding in her little nook in our bedroom. Not just at night, but also...