Category: Friday on the Miller Farm
Updated on August 7, 2019
Welcome Ducklings
A Blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara We moved the ducklings outside this week. They are in the pen where the white chicks had been. They seem to have adjusted very well. I close them in the coop at …
Updated on August 3, 2019
Space
A Blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara After the recent hatching was complete, we have 6 chicks and 2 ducks. We have kept them all in a tub in what was Rachel’s room and is now Brian’s project room. …
Updated on August 1, 2019
Time on Her Own
A Blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara One of the Buff Orpington hens started losing feathers on her back thanks to an overzealous rooster. One morning I discovered her in a nest box with a gash on her back. …
Updated on July 23, 2019
Lost and Found
A blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara One of the chicks I brought home from school disappeared last week. I looked everywhere and didn’t find nary a feather. I was concerned mostly because I was afraid the kids at …
Updated on July 18, 2019
Not Quite Empty Nest
A Blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara Rachel recently moved to Huntsville to be closer to graduate school. After she left I discovered she had left some things – like the incubator. That made sense because her research was …
Updated on July 10, 2019
Memories
A Blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara Times are changing on Miller Farm. It’s just Beekeeper Brian and Chicken Wrangler Sara in the house now so we are painting and rearranging rooms. In this process we have made some …
Updated on July 1, 2019
Unlikely Coop Mates
A Blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara The chicks I brought home from school have grown considerably. I had them in their own pen but one of them kept getting out. Then they all started roosting on the chicken …
Updated on June 20, 2019
Gertie the Great White Whale
A Blog By Chicken Wrangler Sara Beekeeper Brian and I were married August 15, 1987. In November of 1987 we purchased our first car – a 1987 Honda Accord LX. We named her Gertie the Great White Whale, …
Updated on June 6, 2019
Another Children’s Book
A Blog By Chicken Wrangler Sara Rachel has worked as a personal assistant for a woman named Jane who is visually impaired and has somewhat limited mobility. Rachel takes her the places she needs to go and helps …
Updated on May 29, 2019
Circle Dogs
A Blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara My collection of children’s books includes one with the title “Circle Dogs.”It begins “In the big, square house live the two circle dogs” then goes on to trace a day in the …
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