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Reconfigurable range shelter
In May we built a reconfigurable chicken house to hold our new flock of chicks. Since we planned to build a moving rig for it, we located this mini-coop near our back porch for convenience. (Bad idea.) Unfortunately, the summer … Continue reading
Posted in Farm Structures, Livestock
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Sometimes chickens are just really annoying
When we got our original mix of hens two years ago, we felt like everything went pretty smooth with the process. This time, with our new batch of chickens, it seems like everything has gone wrong. I picked several new … Continue reading
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Crooked chicken toes
While out in the chicken pen I noticed a hen who had crooked toes. None of the other chickens seem to have this issue. I tried to research crooked chicken toes, but most of the information I found addresses this … Continue reading
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And then there were 26
Our new chickens were 10 weeks old on Sunday. After raising them this far without incident, today we had the first loss. Robin went out to feed the chickens in the “victims pen” and found one of her two favorite … Continue reading
Posted in Livestock
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Stupid chickens
After we caught “Jake the egg eater,” the next day we caught two more chickens eating eggs. They were put in the box-o-shame. We got a previously cracked empty egg and filled it full of hot sauce and put it … Continue reading
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Chicken penitentiary
Something really annoying has been going on in the nesting boxes for the last three weeks. Eggs were being smashed left and right and the culprit(s) were proving hard to find. The nesting boxes were starting to reek from broken … Continue reading
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What to do with an injured duck?
**Update: I found out it was a goose instead of a duck** I was out hanging laundry, feeling proud of myself for getting three loads done today, when someone pulled up. As I walk over to see what they wanted, … Continue reading
Posted in Livestock, Nature
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Reconfigurable chicken housing
We discovered that brooding chicks in your house is risky business. Specifically, each night they were at risk of being thrown one by one out the window. My patience of having them in the house was fading fast. The little … Continue reading
Posted in Farm Structures, Livestock
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Baby chicks…what were we thinking
Early Sunday morning the post office called me and told me our chicks had arrived. Yup, you read that right. I did say Sunday. I’ve never gotten mail on a Sunday before. So Lee and I sprinted out of bed … Continue reading
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Chickens, broccoli, and rutabagas
It was that time again to mow the chicken pen. The hens were getting lost in the grass so I took pity on them. Since I needed to mow I decided I would bag the grass so I could do … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Livestock
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