backyard chickens

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Fun with Chicken Scratch

Fun with Chicken Scratch

Excuse me while we have a little fun with chicken scratch here at Ever Growing Farm! Because, you know...life is too short and too serious most of the time and chickens are incredibly funny and chicken scratch is like chicken crack to them and I laughed and laughed and laughed while taking these pictures ;-) I do hope you think…
February 20, 2014
Chicken Round Up

Chicken Round Up

Everyone likes chickens, right?  I mean, really!? Yeah...that's what I thought! So, I've gotten together with six other bloggers to bring you a big fat Chicken Round Up!  My contribution to the Round Up, The Care and Keeping of Backyard Chickens was posted here last week, so now it's time to bring you the rest of the fantastic posts!  Here's…
November 18, 2013
Backyard Chickens (Keeping & Care)

Backyard Chickens (Keeping & Care)

In 2010, after living on our 1/8 acre for a couple of years and before transforming everything into the mini farm it is today, we decided to get a couple of chickens and try our hand at the keeping and care of our very first farm animals.  See, we dream of acreage...of wide open spaces...of quiet nights and farm-work filled…
November 14, 2013
How Much Space Does a Chicken Need, Anyway?

How Much Space Does a Chicken Need, Anyway?

We began our backyard chicken keeping experience in the spring of 2010 with five chickens and a much smaller coop (similar to this coop) than we have now without really thinking about how much space chickens need to be happy, healthy and productive.  At the time, we were simply very excited and proud of what we had built and our new…
September 12, 2013
Grow, Harvest, Eat

Grow, Harvest, Eat

Grow Despite the funny summer we've had, we are still seeing a few new items trying to get in their production before the nights get too cold... Luffa A baby Butternut Squash, trying to ripen before the cold weather descends. I'm not sure that the luffa or the butternuts will have enough time to ripen fully, but I am very…
September 9, 2013
Do Our Backyard Chickens Still Pay for Themselves?

Do Our Backyard Chickens Still Pay for Themselves?

Keeping chickens over the past few years has been quite the adventure in both the actual keeping of chickens and in the human response to the fact that we keep chickens.  Conversations are either based around confusion or excitement!  I get questions all the time like;You can keep chickens in the city?Is it expensive to keep chickens?I've always wanted to…
September 2, 2013