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Monthly Archives: March 2008

Settling In — The trials and tribulations of chickens finding a place to sleep.

 
As sunset came around I decided to sit and watch the chicks find a place to roost, seeing that I was outside discussing the viability of a business building small backyard chicken coops and runs for people and selling them as a package with chickens I breed (if you’re interested let me know!). Ronnie, our [...]

They grow up so fast

So the chicks are ready to see the world. It’s getting nice here, in fact today was in the 70s. Yesterday was their first night to spend the night outside. We had let them stay out during a warm afternoon over the weekend but it’s gotten nice and we thought it was time to get [...]

A chick by any other name

So my wife and I put our selves to the task of naming all of our chicks. We tried with the first batch but it was hard. Some of those were being grown for the purpose of eating them and so we couldn’t name them anything too touchy feely or serious - since we would [...]

The new chicks

Seeing that we killed in painful and agonizing ways the last batch of chicks we had. I saw no choice but to order more. This time though I knew what I was doing…this time — I ordered rare breeds!
The Meyer Hatchery has this great package where you can order however many Assorted Rare Breed Layers [...]