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I keep forgetting I have eggs in my pocket
One of the hazards of raising chickens is collecting eggs in your pocket and then forgetting about them. Usually this works out OK, especially if your hens are getting enough calcium in their diet. Sometimes, however, you inadvertently crush them. It is a good idea to go out with the sole purpose to collect the eggs, rather than collecting them while you happen to be out & about (insert Canadian accent to the perplexing delight of my American friends). Continue reading
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The Big-Little Chicken Wars (or Introducing New Chickens to the Flock)
First our wee chickens were in the fireplace. Then we took them out to the shed. On warmish, sunny days, we started placing them in a pen so they could learn of Sun and Wind and Grass.
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Baracka Figures It Out
After discovering the eggs under the porch last week, I feverishly read BackYardChickens for advice about how to get our chicken to lay her eggs in the nest box. First I thought: I built the boxes wrong. So I read a hundred posts on nest boxes and no two were alike (ground-level vs. raised; dim vs. bright; indoor vs. out; roost vs. ramp; from dresser drawers or milk crates lying on the ground to fancy colourful built-ins up next to a roost). Continue reading
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The First Egg!
Of course it should happen that on April 1st, the coldest most miserable day this spring, I discover that Baracka has been laying eggs in a remote corner under the front porch. I’d looked in there a few days ago when Mike suggested they might be checking it out as a laying spot, but it was too dark and cornery to see anything. Continue reading
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