Angel Wheeler

raising chickens

  • Really, Mom?

    My baby’s got hats.  She’s got a lot of hats.  I am nuts for a knitted hat.  Or crocheted, since I don’t really know the difference. But my baby’s also got problems.  Her head is small and her hats are big. So while I’m waiting for her head to grow, I thought we’d try out… Read more

  • Small Miracles

    So why did the chicken cross the road? To get back home from her Mexican vacation, that’s why. Yes, it’s a small miracle, but I’ll take it.  My missing yellow chicken that I wrote about in this post here, has returned safely. I don’t know where she’s been, I only know that she’s home.  She… Read more

  • A Chicken is good for a laugh or two

    When we drove to a nearby city on Friday, January 27th to check into the hospital to give birth, we thought we’d only be gone a couple of days, and so we prepared for being gone only a couple of days.  But as fate would have it, it turned out to be seven. J-Dub drove… Read more

  • The Coyote Snatching

    It’s getting on sundown here at the J &A Chicken Ranch and the girls are heading in to roost for the night.   All thirteen of them. Yep, you read that right.   No typo intended.  Thirteen.  As life would have it, murder, mayhem, and malice struck the Chicken Ranch early Sunday morning past when an unsuspecting fowl fell victim to the… Read more

  • Decisions, decisions.

    Decisions, decisions.  Thankfully not life or death decisions.  More on the caliber of comfort kind of decisions.  As in “should I do an exercise tape or go to bed and read?”  And along the lines of “I just ate mac and cheese, but I really want some milk toast.”  Do you know what milk toast… Read more

  • Chicken Drowning Averted

    The fourteen chickens who run this ranch have full reign of the place.  At times, they may be found perched on the hood of a truck, sitting on a tractor wheel, or stealing the horse’s feed.  They do as they please, when they please, which is just fine with me.  I can’t bear to coop them up. … Read more

  • Update on life

    I know. I know. I know.  I’ve been bad about blogging.  It’s just that I’ve felt quiet lately.  I wonder if you can relate.  Sometimes you just don’t have much to say, until you don’t say much for too long, then you have way too much to say.  This originally short post  turned into a… Read more

  • Eggs!!

    I peeked into the chicken feeder to see how low the chickens were getting on feed, and just take a looky-look at what I discovered.   Yup, eggs.  In the feeder.  Our very first crop, if that’s what you call it.  I had been checking for eggs daily, but foolish me, was looking in the… Read more

  • Country Troubles

    Somedays the  J&A Chicken Ranch has more excitement than my feeble heart can handle. This beautiful breezy morning I am waiting for the water well repair man as we have no water coursing through our pipes.  The precious commodity, the life blood, the toilet flusher has seized for reasons unknown to me, but hopefully not beyond the… Read more

  • The Chickens

    My life has no D.R.A.M.A. Thank God.  I am approximately 18 days into my summer vacation and I am B.O.R.E.D. out of my G.O.U.R.D. Thank God. I would much rather be bored than have drama.  Hands down. My day consists of wakening, letting out the chickens, and going back to bed.  Re-awakening,  checking my facebook… Read more