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Archive of posts filed under the Chickens category.
Potential
Step one: Gather all of the raw materials. Have you ever seen such raw chicken? The Goal: Something like this. Only not for cats. And don’t forget about the GIVEAWAY! Click here to enter.
Chickens – ’tis the season
We got our little Barred Rocks a couple of weeks ago. Only 8 of them, we got all the feed store had. They’ve been living in a Sterlite storage container in the garage, but they grew. Apparently we like living on the edge because we keep buying chicks before we have anywhere to [...]
Bye Bye Birdy!
I am a rookie chicken farmer. Way back in June when I ordered our chicks I had no idea how many roosters would be too many for our flock and so we ordered 4 That would have been too many, but it turned out that one of the 25 hens we wanted was actually not. [...]
OUCH!
Both came from our flock. (above) Here it is again, this time next to an egg from the grocery store, grade A large. (above) Yessir! All that came outta that one, giant egg. All the rest of the eggs we have gathered so far have been far smaller than the grade As that I’m used [...]
This is not good!
The kids were in the library folding laundry, I was in the boys room folding laundry, Blaze was napping on a cushion in the family room and Maggie was enjoying fresh air and sunshine outside on the tie out. Or so we thought! Caleb says to me, “Ma, Maggie isn’t on the tie out.” <insert [...]
Nuestro primer huevo, glorioso!
Don’t ask me how much this egg cost, I’m trying not to think about that part.
