What is Behavioral Enrichment? Behavioral enrichment, also called environmental enrichment, is an “animal husbandry principle that seeks to enhance the quality of captive animal care by identifying and providing the environmental stimuli necessary for optimal psychological and physiological wellbeing”. Behavioral

Big Changes With The Golden Girls: Turns out, Sophia is actually a rooster and has been renamed Rooso.  The pair is very bonded and becoming mature.  Over time, there have been visible development differences in comb, wattles and behavior.  Rooso

Updates from The Golden Girls: Socialization between chickens Rose and Sophia, Maggie Roo the piglet, and Vera Roo the kitten, has been truly amazing and comical.  The key is to start young and provide exposure to each other frequently if

As a first-time chicken mom, I can tell you that raising Sophia and Rose has been a unique and very rewarding experience. I never knew that chickens were so goofy and entertaining, in addition to being very loving and affectionate.

Updates from the Golden Girls! Over the last couple of weeks, the coop has been built and the girls are growing like weeds. As the weather warmed, I placed them in their coop a little longer each day, bringing them

Cuteness Alert!! Last week we shared a blog from Lisa Holland, DVM and her Golden Girls! She’s updated us on how they’re getting on: Socialization has really been successful over the last several weeks. Handling and spending time with the