Showing posts with label eggs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eggs. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

State of the Farm Summer Solstice (Drought 2015)

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There are still almost two weeks until solstice, but with the weather we've been having, it feels very much like summer. In fact, it fee...
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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Monday, April 2, 2012

Trade Network 2012 (Craigslist Chronicles)

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Every year I have to start from scratch on the trade network, it seems. People move away, Like Veggie/Oil Man and the Kale Fairy did, or peo...
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Sunday, March 18, 2012

Egg-stra Eggs (Preserving and Using Up Eggs)

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The equinox must be fast approaching: I'm drowning in eggs. My preferred method for getting rid of extra eggs is to sell them or trade t...
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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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Friday, April 16, 2010

Steppin' Up the Trade Network

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In light of my vast surplus of eggs and milk products, I decided to post an ad on Craigslist looking for a gardener with whom to trade. Alas...
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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Easy-Cheesy (No Room at the Inn)

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Last week, I started separating the baby goats at night. Now I am getting a crazy-large volume of milk, a volume that must be dealt with dai...
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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, 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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Thursday, January 7, 2010

Everybody Hates Pigs, and Confessions of Laziness

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Our pigpen is pretty squalid this time of year. When we don't have a pig in the pen, it serves as a place to pitch the old straw and hor...
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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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Sunday, October 4, 2009

Sudden Abundance

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Ever since the ladder broke, I haven't been able to check the hayloft for eggs. I had thought that perhaps without the ladder the hens c...
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Monday, June 8, 2009

Weird Eggs Redoux

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Clockwise from top right: a more or less regular egg, a freakin' gigantic egg which is most likely a double-yolker, and a teeny-tiny pre...
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Saturday, May 23, 2009

First Cheese of the Year

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Well, I'm not going to count the first batch, which didn't turn out at all because I thought I remembered enough from last year and ...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Production Going Up

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Since we killed the egg-eating hen, I've been collecting about sixteen eggs a day. The trade network is not capable of absorbing this ma...
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Monday, April 20, 2009

Alas, a Chicken Must Die.

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Actually, I'm not sad about it at all, since I don't have to do it. Homero is the designated chicken assassin around here.  The big ...
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Thursday, March 12, 2009

And Now There's Not Enough.

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Last week I was drowning in eggs, and the food bank wouldn't take them, so I put an ad on Craigslist offering free eggs to families in n...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

This may seem obvious, but....

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Don't carry eggs in from the chicken coop in your bra. Why would I do such a dumb thing? Well, in my defense, it's not so easy to ca...
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Sunday, March 8, 2009

Crafty Chickens

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Today we found a hidden cache of eggs behind the hay bales in the momma barn. I must have left the window open one day. Eight of them. Nobod...
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