Showing posts with label chickens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chickens. Show all posts
Sunday, April 3, 2022

Spring Chickens

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We got some baby chicks. Now that we have a coop for chickens so close to the house - right inside the fenced backyard - and can be reasonab...
Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Attempting Chickens Again (Hammer and Crime)

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Every winter, we lose most of our poultry to coyotes. This is, of course, mostly our own fault. Our chicken coop is hardly worthy of the nam...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Predator Problems (Facebook Farmers)

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Last year, we had good luck with turkeys. We never intended to raise turkeys, but a trade came our way ( Turkey Trade ) and we acquired ...
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Friday, April 6, 2012

It Figures

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Why is it that every time I get some good egg trades going, the hens mysteriously quit laying? Since my last post on Monday ( Trade Network ...
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Friday, February 10, 2012

Putting the Pork in my Pocket (Farm Finances)

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The time finally came to call our local meat processors and schedule the pigs for execution. These two have been slow growers - probably due...
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Saturday, October 15, 2011

The Great Hen Giveaway (It's Not His Fault)

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It's not hard to tell roosters from hens, not when they are full grown. Here; I'll show you. This is a hen. Hens are female. They la...
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Sunday, July 10, 2011

It's a Fricken' Chicken' Miracle!

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The hens have not had good luck this year raising chicks. Twice that I know of, a hen sat on a clutch of eggs for the full 21 days (or longe...
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Friday, June 17, 2011

Broiler Report (Caldo de Pollo and Liver Pate)

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Back in late March, my sister and I decided to go in on a dozen broiler chicks. Homero and I had been trying - unsuccessfully - to eat one o...
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Saturday, May 14, 2011

Greenhouse Pictures

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My new sitting area on the porch. I traded a dozen eggs for each of the wooden spools, and I think they make nice tables. My herbs are accli...
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Monday, March 21, 2011

Bad Bee News; Baby Broilers

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About a month ago, we had a windstorm. That's not news; we have windstorms every couple of weeks from October on every winter. We live o...
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Chicken Surprise!

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Yesterday, I found the first egg of the year... or what I THOUGHT was the first egg of the year. Most chicken folk I know have been getting ...
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Surprise!!

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Monday, April 19, 2010

Things I Saw Today, and Stuff I Thought About Those Things.

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1) A bunch of goats in the house. I let the goats out to browse, and contrary to all my previous experience, I tried to do something else wh...
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Sunday, February 28, 2010

Just Who Do I think I Am, and What the Hell Do I Think I'm Doing?

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Although it was a beautiful day here, weatherwise, it was a rather discouraging day for me personally. I'm not sure why - it was a fairl...
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Sunday, February 21, 2010

Things I Don't Understand

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1) Why the chickens are not laying eggs. A few weeks ago, we decided to put the chickens into a coop because we weren't getting very man...
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Monday, February 8, 2010

New Coop

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Every spring, the chickens destroy the seedlings in the garden. Every spring, the chickens start running around and laying their eggs all ov...
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Monday, January 11, 2010

Enough Eggs

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The chickens must be extremely sensitive to light. Even though the days have been dark and dreary since the New Year, several hens have star...
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Monday, January 4, 2010

Too Many Roos, and Musings on Meat (WARNING - GRAPHIC PICS)

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Although last year's chicks had a very poor survival rate (like maybe 25%) we still ended up with too many roosters. Now we have five, w...
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Sunday, January 3, 2010

Eureka! Eggs!

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Found eight eggs up in the hayloft. I always check up there, but it's kind of dark. The hens snuggle down between bales of hay and make ...
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Chicken Conundrum

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Time for another installment of the regularly recurring game - "Where the %$@? are the chickens laying their eggs?" I don't ex...
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