Red Bucket Farm

Today I am so grateful for air conditioning. The weather is oppressively humid and hot. What can I do to help my chickens get through the ne...

Spring chicks are a happy event at Red Bucket Farm. Some years we obtain chicks from a local hatchery so that we can drive over and pick the...

As the growing season slowly comes to an end, I'm experimenting with drying herbs for cooking use as well as for my chickens. A far...

Marilyn laid her first egg today! She's been preparing for this big moment for a few weeks. Yesterday morning she snuggled in a nest ...

Yesterday I agreed to a telephone interview with a student journalist writing for The Badger Herald. I was told that the article was about u...

Our spring chicks are now eight weeks old and no longer little balls of fluff. They have grown adult feathers and spend their days outsid...

We picked up our chicks at Abendroth's Hatchery on Monday morning. The hatchery was clean, friendly and well organized. Our girls were c...

So you'd like to order a few backyard chicks and you don't know where to start? First, decide why you want to raise chickens. Do you...

I'm so excited! I just placed an order for spring chicks. In spite of the continuing cold weather and another visit from the polar vorte...

Cassie the Easter Egger has finally started laying eggs again! Her last egg was Dec. 21, nearly eight weeks ago. It's normal for molt...

What's wrong with this picture? Nothing, I suppose. Egg production from my backyard flock is way up. I should hardly be concerned! ...

The deadline to register for the Landscape Pesticide Registry in Wisconsin is February 1.  Go straight to the website for the Department ...

The hens at Red Bucket Farm are tolerating our current sub-zero temperatures rather well. The small ceramic heat emitters inside the hen ...

Of course you know that egg production is dependent mostly on daylight. As the days grow shorter at the winter solstice, egg production n...

Earlier this month we experienced three consecutive days of -20 degree Fahrenheit daytime temperatures. Although I believe chickens to...

Some hens begin their egg-laying career with little fanfare, while other hens require extra encouragement. Generally speaking, I do not fus...

Ruby has just begun laying her first eggs! She is a hybrid known sometimes as Red Star, Comet, or Golden Buff. The females are veritable ...

The spring chicks at Red Bucket Farm are growing quickly. They hatched April 8 and arrived here on the farm April 10. Their earliest week...

I went out to gather eggs this noon and look what I found! The green egg is from Crocus the Easter Egger; the tan egg is from Squill th...

On Saturday, we volunteered as one of a dozen host sites for the Mad City Chicken Coop Tour. Visitors began arriving just after 9 am and con...