Backyard Chickens
Chicken Breeds Chart: 21 Breeds Compared by Eggs, Color and Hardiness
A printable chicken breeds chart comparing 21 backyard breeds by eggs per year, egg color, cold and heat hardiness and temperament.
Cooped Up Life · Chickens, DIY, kids & AI
Should I be doing this? Probably not.
I probably shouldn't be doing this, but I'm doing it anyway. I have no foundation of understanding of what I'm doing, but let's see what we can do.
Six years of chickens · Every room, some twice · Six years in a headset
The long version
The website is where the research lives. Here is what I read, here is why I bought it, you decide.
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Free Homeschool Curriculum: 18 Options That Are Actually Free, PreK to 12 (2026)
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Consumer Math for Homeschool: What It Is, What It Covers and the 8 Best Curriculums (2026)
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One life, six doorways
This is the shop window. Each doorway is where the full version lives.
Cooped UpDIY I built the pool. I followed somebody else's plans for the table. I picked the tile and paid a pro to lay it. I'll always tell you which is which. 
Some things I can figure out. Some things I've gotten myself in over my head. Some things I'm still too scared to try.
Figured it out
The rice cooker. I couldn't even make rice for the longest time, but look at me now — I can make rice like nobody's business.
In over my head
A drama made with AI, from scratch. I really just thought I could explain it and the AI would spit it out. Every step has been tough.
Still too scared
The pressure canner. I own it. It's still in the box. I'm eventually going to get around to it. I just got to build up to it.
Ongoing series
Start at part one. New parts land as I figure them out.
1 part so far
AI and the Disordered Brain
Why the body keeps answering a stressor that is already gone, and the tools that finally kept up.
Coming soon
Cooped Up Studios
Making a drama with AI, from scratch, with no background in any of it.
Reader favorites
The chicken posts people keep coming back to.
The origin story
I walked into my first college computer course. The assignment was to set up an email address and email the professor. I walked out and dropped the class, because email was obviously never going to take. That woman now has two AIs talking to each other.
Too young for Nirvana · Too old for MMMBop
About Michelle
