Backyard Chickens

Already a Stranger

July 4, 2011

It’s been a little over two months since we gave our chickens away.  We found a home for them and gave them away before we went to Texas for a week to look for a house (a lot of good that trip was!) and the guy who usually took care of them for us when [...]

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Chicken Update

May 10, 2011

When our chickens first went to their new home, Ashley reported that there had been no fighting between my hens and her hens but they were staying segregated.  My chickens hung out together, her chickens hung out together but there was no socializing between the two groups.  She said that at first my chickens would [...]

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Chicken Memories

April 23, 2011

While we are missing our chickens, I know that in the grand scheme of things, my chickens being gone isn’t that big of a deal. It isn’t like we’ve lost family members, though we did love our chickens.  I use my cell phone for my alarm and I have what’s called the “Chicken Alarm” that [...]

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They’re Gone!

April 22, 2011

Believe it or not, I didn’t cry when they left.  The lady, who is a hygienist at our dentist, her husband two children came to get them.  The kids were petting and holding the chickens.  They were scared of the man and lady but took right to the kids.  They picked dandelions for them and [...]

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Dandelion Treats

April 22, 2011

The chickens love dandelions.  Since today is the last day they’ll be with me, I decided to pick them a whole jar full of dandelions but I chose a jar that was too big to fill.  There were plenty of dandelions to pick but my back was screaming after I’d picked 400 of them. Usually [...]

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Thank You Little Brown Hen

March 24, 2011

Ruby and her Red Star sisters are laying machines.  With 6 of them, I almost always got 3 brown eggs a day, even through the worst of the winter.  The Easter Eggers . . not such good layers.  But, they surely do lay pretty eggs when they do lay and that has to count for [...]

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