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Sunday Bloody Sunday
Early this spring, we added about a half dozen leghorn chickens to our flock. Of these, only one turned out to be a rooster. And he is a beauty–pure white with bright red comb and wattle–really, he looks exactly like Foghorn … Continue reading
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Culling the Roosters – Part Two (Culling the Roosters)
This is how the coop looked last night when we closed up the chickens. We let them go in and roost and, once they were settled, we grabbed the seven roosters slated for culling and crated them. If you ever … Continue reading
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Naked Chicks Everywhere!
We might have a bit of a chicken problem. When we started keeping chickens, we rescued a starter flock of 12 Rhode Island Reds that were destined for a brief life in a factory farm. This was an excellent and … Continue reading
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Tagged chicken coop, chicken wire, chickens, chicks, eggs, goats, hatching chicks, incubator, organic eggs, pallets, roost, tarps, tractor
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