What else is there to talk about other than chickens. This is a few of the settling in for the night on their perch.
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Chicks Love Lettuce
The chickens are continuing to grow. We are starting to experiment with different foods. They love lettuce but aren’t keen on radish tops and the strawberry tops were a total mystery.
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Boxer meets chick
One month old 3 ounce chick meets 11 month old 90 lb boxer who seriously just want to play. Not a mean bone in his body and deeply curious, Farley would happily have taken all 13 chicks home in order to love and protect them as his own. It’s was really sweet and funny.
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Gawky teenagers
Need I say more?
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Movin’ on out
The chicks are ready to move into their big coop – well, truth be told, we are ready to for them to move out of the house. The big move happened this morning with minimal trauma. They found their food and water without a problem as well as the roost under the heat lamp. There […]
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Chicks at Thirteen Days
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Spring is here
Spring on the ‘farm’ always means chicks. This year we purchased 12 one-day old hatchlings from the local feed store. As their name would suggest we received a Baker’s dozen. Thirteen little fluff balls. Their home has taken over the dining room table.
My maternal grandmother made this lovely savoury chutney. It was a favourite growing up, eaten with Saltines and sharp cheddar. My three siblings and I could go through a jar in seconds flat so our mother only brought them out on special occasions. There somehow became this rite of passage. You had to love chutney […]
Dexter’s cousin, Farley, came to visit today. Farley is a 9 week old boxer puppy and we had a tough time getting a clear picture of this busy little body. Farley was fascinated by the chickens and kept running over to the coop to check them out. They barely paid any attention to him. He […]
The Zesty Blueberry & Booze jam got rave reviews. With Mackenzie taking home half of the production from yesterday there was nothing else to do but make another batch. In recreating the recipe from yesterday I realized that we may have shortchanged the amount of Disaronno in the first batch. That was definitely rectified in […]
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