Chickens in the Backyard

I do very much like domain names that plainly state what they are about.

Not that my site www.TheFeatheredEgg.com doesn't come right out and say it... feathers and eggs, you see.

And not that www.TheFreeRooster.com doesn't also banish confusion... other than the fact that I offer no free roosters here. (But I do tell you that There Is A Reason The Rooster Is Free...)

So www.BackyardChickens.com pretty much says it all.

It is one of the strongest current urban chicken sites on the internet and is run by Rob Ludlow, whom I do not know. He is one of the authors of Raising Chickens for Dummies (with Kimberly Willis, whom I also do not know)

It is an absolute clutch of coop designs. A motherlode of Breed info. Check OUT this breed selector tool! (okay, I just lost an hour to the breed selector tool and I’m not even in the market for new chicks darn-nit! There’s such a thing as too cool.)

Hey, a recipes section… this is my kind of site. Not just chicken love but chicken life… cycle. That’s the delicate border between pet and purpose where I keep losing tailfeathers.

www.Backyardchickens.com is like a download from the movie The Matrix. Plug in and come out a chickspert. Well, at least until I walk out to my future-yes-I-will-have-them-again pen… then reality reasserts itself and a chicken takes me down.

I happily add this site to my online coop tour of way-cool chicken websites.