Chickens

A Big One and a Little One

July 16, 2010

The tale of two eggs . .

Dirty Chickens

July 16, 2010

I wish my girls were more feminine and didn’t like to play in the dirt so much!

Funny how I think about food scraps differently now that we have chickens. Most of the fresh veggie trimmings went into the compost bin before, but nowadays I give as much as I can to the chickens. They’re so excited to get treats. Earlier this week I made a strawberry cake and all the stems [...]

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Story Time for the Chickens

June 5, 2010

Any time we offer to read to the chickens, they request The Little Red Hen. That’s the only book they ever want us to read. I thought recently I should expose the girls to quilting . . maybe read a quilting magazine to them. We started with Quilter’s Home. Oh, Ruby was none too happy [...]

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Our First Broody Chicken

May 28, 2010

Poor Matilda. She thinks she’s going to hatch some babies. She is not. It isn’t for her lack of trying though. For the past week or so, she’s been trying to sit on the eggs. We have no roosters. There will be no babies! Somehow, Matilda must have communicated her plan to the other hens [...]

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Paducah Bound

April 19, 2010

I hope everything I need is packed. If not, there are stores in Paducah. Getting away from this house is the hardest thing I encounter. Speck sees my travel bag and goes into full panic mode. Actually I did most of the packing last night and put it all in the car but he watches [...]

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