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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

I learned something new

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Apparently I've been candling wrong.  Tonight, we candled a few more eggs to see how things were going after after a couple eggs, I dec...
Sunday, November 24, 2013

The First Candling

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We finally candled the eggs that are in the incubator.  The eggs have been in the incubator for 7 days and the eggs themselves are between 1...
Friday, November 22, 2013

Just asking for trouble

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A friend of mine emailed a few of her chicken people (that includes us) to see if we wanted to order any chicks for an April delivery. Thi...
Sunday, November 17, 2013

Molting looks like Murder

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BigRedToo has been molting and I have to say that she looks horrible. Even her tail looks like a chopped off stump now ...
Friday, November 15, 2013

The goats are at it again

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 A couple weeks ago I accidentally cut the electrical cord that was going out to the coops for the lights and water heater.  I hadn't ...

Still on Day One

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When I woke up this morning I checked the incubator and it was only at 80 degrees and 80% humidity.  I got some of the water out and turned ...
Thursday, November 14, 2013

Who knew eggs could cause this much stress?!

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The oldest text me to say the eggs had arrived today.  I believe my response used the word "CAREFULLY" several times when I told h...
Sunday, November 10, 2013

A Neighbor's Old Farm

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Yesterday, we went to a friends house to pick something up and realized that he lived on an old farm. While his house is in normal conditio...

When you want to hatch special eggs

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I have promised myself several times that I would not get more birds unless they were purebred birds. I did a little research and thinking ...
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Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Tucking the girls in

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One of our youngest girls has decided to go broody.  Every night for almost a week, I have found her in a nest box on the eggs from that da...