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Showing posts with label Chickens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chickens. Show all posts
Saturday, September 1, 2018

Too young for mommy-hood

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A few weeks ago one of the chickens disappeared.  No sign of feathers or anything.  A couple weeks ago we got rid of our last rooster becau...
Thursday, August 2, 2018

Eggs Eggs Everywhere

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The chickens are laying pretty regularly now, we got five today!  They're still cute little eggs at this point.  The bad news is that t...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Roaming too far

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Our birds don't seem to understand that there is plenty of other space to roam near their coop... going completely around the house and...
Monday, July 30, 2018

Our Flock

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Perhaps we should have broken down our flock sooner. We have : three Australorp - one of them is a rooster that's been nice so fa...

You don't belong here

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We had guests over yesterday that said one of our chickens was down by the road.  I was surprised that one would be alone or that they woul...

Our first eggs - again

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I found out first eggs last night!  They were laying on the coop floor (not cool chickens!) and were so tiny and cute!   Penny for sca...
Sunday, July 22, 2018

We've been flocked

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Our community does a Library Fundraiser where people pay money to "flock" someone's house.  The Flamingo flock arrived at our...
Friday, July 6, 2018

Do you see something wrong here?

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On the 4th of July I went to lock up the chickens and was happy to see that none of them were on the ground or trying to sit on the nest bo...
Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Chickens are finally free range

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They got their first taste of freedom! 16 birds, 2 are males.  

And we finally have nest boxes

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We still have another two months before our birds start to lay, but I'm about a month late getting nest boxes installed in the coop. I ...
Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Where have we been

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Two years ago we decided that we wanted to move to Iowa. I had done a lot of research on cost of living and teacher salaries and came up fo...
Sunday, March 6, 2016

Playing Possum

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This morning the oldest was helping me in the garden and he dragged a trash can over for us to load with dead weeds and grass.  He quickly f...

Chickens in a Car

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Apparently if you leave the back of the car open too long, Dolly and one of her friends will decide to check things out. She was in the...
Monday, February 29, 2016

New predator

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We have lost about 1 chicken a week for the past couple weeks to a predator. I thought it was a fox again, but was surprised that the birds...
Friday, February 19, 2016

An update, a year late

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I know I haven't written in a very long time.  I've thought about it many times but things just changed so much since Faith passed a...
Monday, January 19, 2015

The hunt is on

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Last week, Silkie Sue was killed by a raccoon.  We found her body with evidence to prove who killed her.  It was sad because she's be...
Thursday, January 8, 2015

Baby, it's Cold Out There

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We had a pretty cold patch with temperatures below freezing even during the day.  The chickens didn't want to venture too far from the ...
Monday, July 7, 2014

Welcome Home from the Pet Sitter

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While we were gone for the week, we did find out that one of the chickens had died.  We don't know what happen to her, but she had been ...
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Monday, May 5, 2014

More Chicken Aprons

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I had to order more chicken aprons because a couple of the girls are still getting torn up a bit too much from the roosters. Before I w...
Sunday, April 6, 2014

A chick with extra toes??

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Our last batch of chicks is now two months old and is finally getting some more regular time outside in a chicken run. The Polish w...