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2013 Lessons & Reflections

2013 Lessons & Reflections

What a whirlwind 2013 has proven to be! I thought that, given all of the lessons we have learned in 2013, a reflection of sorts would be a nice way to bring it all to a close. So, here are some of my reflections on 2013...personal, professional and farm related... Family With the flight of my first daughter and the…
December 31, 2013
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
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
Flies in the Chicken Scratch

Flies in the Chicken Scratch

Teeny, tiny flies...tons of them...in our chicken scratch. We've been keeping chickens for a few years now and I have never seen this before!  I first saw them on Saturday when I went out to feed the Ladies.  I opened up the Scratch Bin and noticed a few tiny flies, but didn't think anything of it.  Then, as I scooped…
August 20, 2013