Showing posts with label chickens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chickens. Show all posts
28 August 2010

If *this* were my job…

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… I tell ya, things would be different. If my job were keeping the house and farm running, keeping up with everything would be so much eas...
03 November 2009

City Chickens in Windsor, Ontario

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This just in from CBC News! A new city committee will study the possibility that people in Windsor, Ont., should be allowed to raise c...
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04 October 2009

A new chicken coop, made entirely of scraps and leftovers!

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Chickens are wonderful animals. They don’t need much in the way of infrastructure or daily care, they give you eggs every day and chicks eve...
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03 October 2009

Hatchlings

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The mama hen that went broody a few weeks ago now has three baby chicks peeping under her warm feathers. :) When the hen went broody, we p...
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30 August 2009

Learning as we go

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Well, the hatchlings didn’t make it. One died in the shell – we think it was stuck to the shell and couldn’t get loose, as the second one ...
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29 August 2009

Whaddaya know, the eggabator works!

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The Reluctant Farmer went to check the temperature on the eggabator just a bit ago, and noticed one of the eggs was tipped on it’s side a li...
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08 August 2009

TRF's DIY Eggabator

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(The Reluctant Farmer's Do-It-Yourself Chicken Egg Incubator) The Reluctant Farmer is the Chicken Guy around here: we all enjoy the eggs...
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16 June 2009

Chickens and food security

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I just finished listening to a new audio book - One Second After , a story about what could happen if the United States was hit by an electr...
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08 June 2009

The compost is steaming!

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Yes, you read that correctly. Last evening, it was pretty chilly outside (around 5 degrees C) and I looked out to see steam coming off the c...
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04 June 2009

Daily humour from The Reluctant Farmer

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We had a broody hen hogging one of the nest boxes, and as a result chickens were laying eggs in other mysterious locations ... which we coul...
05 April 2009

The circle of life

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We have too many roosters. Last week, we actually had a hen killed by the roosters ... there were just too many of the boys interested in h...
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19 October 2008

The Reluctant Farmer and his Chickens

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As you can see from the photo, the Reluctant Farmer is anything but reluctant when it comes to his chickens. :) The new junior hens that he ...
05 October 2008

The Great Chicken Venture

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The Reluctant Farmer has decided that he really likes chickens. They are great fun to watch, poking around the yard and scratching at the di...
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21 September 2008

Chicks

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We had two hens go broody awhile back, and so they were put in cages to sit on their eggs undisturbed for a few weeks. A little while back,...
13 August 2006

A chick hatched!

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After two unsuccessful attempts, we finally had a hatching! Okay, so there are still about 15 eggs sitting in the nestbox, and none of them ...
19 June 2006

Sheep that want to go to school, and a broody hen

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We had a Sheep Escape yesterday! Actually we've had a couple of these incidents due to loose spots under the fencing. We knew they were ...
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18 May 2006

The chickens are here!

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The chickens arrived today! We had a busy day - we had to go load flowers for the 4-H flower sale, then we came home, kicked the dog out of ...