Backyard chickens - interconnectedness series Archives | ARealGreenLife https://arealgreenlife.com/tag/backyard-chickens-interconnectedness-series/ Making healthier choices. For you, your family and community, and our Earth. Fri, 03 Oct 2025 05:32:26 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://arealgreenlife.com/wp-content/uploads/ARGL-logo-wide-white-background.png Backyard chickens - interconnectedness series Archives | ARealGreenLife https://arealgreenlife.com/tag/backyard-chickens-interconnectedness-series/ 32 32 How Roosters ​​Care for Hens (and what happiness has to do with regenerative agriculture) https://arealgreenlife.com/backyard-chickens-interconnectedness-part-3/ https://arealgreenlife.com/backyard-chickens-interconnectedness-part-3/#comments Fri, 19 Oct 2018 20:15:06 +0000 https://arealgreenlife.com/?p=4235 This post shares the funny things one of our roosters gets up to, and it concludes the Backyard Chicken Series with the question, "Can good husbandry, regenerative agriculture, and morally right living, be defined in terms of happiness and connection?"

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How Roosters Care for Hens (and what happiness has to do with regenerative agriculture)

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Approximately a 6 minute read. |First published Oct '18; updated Feb '25

This post shares the funny antics of one of our roosters, whose stories include such things as nesting boxes, interested hens, and a falling wheelbarrow. 

It concludes on a more serious note with the question, "Can good husbandry and ethical agriculture be defined in terms of happiness and connection?"

This is Part 3 of a Series; find part 1 here and part 2 here.


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Mama Hens and Baby Chicks

Part 2 of a Series | Approximately a 6 minute read. |First published Oct '18; updated Feb '25

This article is Part 2 of a Series that is mostly about chickens – not how to care for them (find that here), but how to appreciate them as being more complex and interesting than most of us give them credit for. In this article I share stories about mother hens and the unique, individual ways they care for their chicks. 

If you're interested only in mother hens and chicks, this article will be fine to read by itself. But if you want to read my musings on inter-connectedness, why I think that's important, and what it has to do with chickens, you’ll need to go back and read the previous article.

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Pondering our Connectedness to all of Life + What I've learned from Broody Hens about Chicken  Smarts

Part 1 of a Series | Approximately a 5 minute read. |First published Oct '18; updated Feb '25

This series is about appreciating our connection to all living things, including but not limited to chickens. Please note that this is NOT about “how to take care of chickens” (you can find that here).

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