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Monthly Archives: August 2008

Bad Hair Day

What does an afro chicken look like when they have a bad hair day? Well these photos should answer this age old question.

A Tasty Treat

We have several Black Walnut trees. These trees are interesting in that they lose leaves year round. They fall, bright yellow on the green grass and Fred gets very excited. He’s sqwaks and clucks calling the girls over for a delicious treat, only it’s a leaf. And they are all over the ground. The chickens [...]

Eggsamples

We had heard many stories about the difference between store bought eggs and freshly laid. I generally trusted them because it seemed to be unanimous. Then Teresa laid her first egg, we hard boiled it and I couldn’t tell the difference.
Having said that understand I hadn’t had a hardboiled egg in a very long time [...]

Don’t Interrupt the Process

As you all know last week we got our first egg. Teresa got the process started, but Julian made it infinitely more interesting. For one, she decided to use the nest boxes on the second story, which is a lot harder to get to but I’m pleased to see she likes it better. Second, she [...]