Backyard Chickens

Chicken Freedom

February 12, 2011

The poor, deprived chickens have been cooped up literally for two weeks.  We couldn’t let them outside because the snow was too deep.  Besides, the coop is heated and we had days and days that the temps barely got into double digits and too many nights with near zero temps.  They were safer, though not [...]

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Footprints Tell the Whole Story

January 20, 2011

Lots of fresh snow! It’s so pretty and so white and so clean!  But, dang it – it’s cold out there! I wish the snow could stay perfect and white.  It cannot stay perfect -  we must go out and tend to the chickens and leave big, ugly bootprints in the snow.  First, I go [...]

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Winter Can End Now

January 13, 2011

We’ve had our first snow.  We’ve had a bit of ice.  I’m ready for spring.  The snow is so pretty when it first falls and everything is white and clean and crisp but almost immediately, our vehicles go from looking like this: to looking like this: The garage becomes full of paraphernalia for tending chickens [...]

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The Fully Feathered Hen

December 30, 2010

The Easter Eggers aren’t as friendly as the Red Stars.   They don’t trust me.  Could be because one of their sisters is in my freezer from last year and our friends had one of their sisters for dinner this year.  I’m just sayin’ . . But do you see how shiny and pretty all of [...]

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A Late Gift

December 28, 2010

A green egg! We have two chickens that lay green eggs. One lays an aqua-green egg (shown above) and one lays an avocado-green egg.  It has been probably two or three months since anyone has laid a green egg and Vince was grumbling about feeding chickens that aren’t laying eggs.  He was thinking . . [...]

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Eating Greens

December 22, 2010

Chickens love greens!  They get so excited when we move them to fresh grass.  But, this time of year, there’s no fresh grass to be found . . just ugly brown everywhere. The thought occurred to me that since bean sprouts are so easy to grow indoors, that’s a way I can give them some [...]

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