Showing posts with label chicks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chicks. Show all posts
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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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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Sunday, August 8, 2010

Roadtrip Roundup (World's Best Farmsitter)

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We were out of town for the last few days - we drove to McCall, Idaho for my cousin's wedding. Dad is still with us, and there's not...
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Surprise!!

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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Speak of the Devil....

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No sooner do I post that nothing is going on than I discover that the black hen has hatched out two chicks. Being up in the hayloft, they wo...
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Same-Sex Chicken Experiment

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Well, my happy little lesbian hen family has not survived. Chick envy appears to have been the problem. The yellow and one of the black mama...
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Thursday, September 24, 2009

My Two Mommies, Chicken Edition

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Well it appears that two female chickens can partner up and both be mommies to the same brood. It's been a few days, and both hens are s...
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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Chick Update

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Still only the same three chicks. The two hens have abandoned the nests now, so there won't be any more. I'm afraid I may have commi...
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Friday, September 18, 2009

Operation Hayloft

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I'm not sure I ever informed you all, but a few weeks ago I noticed that there was a chicken up in the hayloft, brooding. It's kind ...
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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Chick Attrition

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I know there are plenty of people who raise chickens out there. Do your chicks suffer the terrible infant mortality rate that mine do? The f...
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Monday, July 20, 2009

Chick Update

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Homero is opening eggs which he says are peeping. He is doing it on camera for his relatives in Oaxaca. Thank the Lord I haven't the tec...
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Saturday, May 30, 2009

Better Luck This Time, Chicks!

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I didn't blog about this, because it made me so sad. Remember all the little bantam chicks that I bought at the feed store and slipped u...
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Friday, June 20, 2008

second chance chicks

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The yellow mama has hatched out two chicks. There are four more eggs, but I don't think they're going to hatch. I only just discover...
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