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Using Eggshells in the Garden

December 5, 2024 4 min to read

Discover the amazing benefits of using eggshells in your vegetable garden! Improve soil health, repel pests, and boost plant growth naturally.

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*Poof*

November 15, 2024 2 min to read

And just like that, she reappears! Time really gets away from me.  How is in the middle of November? I’m still trying to process that summer has come and gone! …

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Avoiding cooked chicken in a heatwave

July 8, 2024 1 min to read

This heat is something else. I think almost everyone reading this is in a region affected by the current (mid-July 2024) heatwave, you all know what I mean. The farm …

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Rooster Number One

June 26, 2024 1 min to read

He’s not the “Number One” (best) rooster (that we know of, yet), just the first one to start crowing (err, sort of – you’ll know what I mean when you …

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Chicken Waterers and Coop Hygiene

May 29, 2024 3 min to read

We learn the weirdest things when we start something new. What seems completely obvious in hindsight can be completely missed in the start up phase, while there’s other things that …

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They’re starting to look like chickens

May 20, 2024 1 min to read

It’s amazing how fast kids grow. All kids. But chicks, they almost literally change every time you look at them. The chicks are about 5 weeks old, we’ve had them …

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Exploring

May 9, 2024 0 min to read

The chicks are starting to explore and get used to all the sounds and sights in their new world. They still startle but don’t get quite so frantic when the …

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Freedom!

May 5, 2024 0 min to read

The chicks got to go “outside” for the first time today, and we also put together a roost for them!

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Owl Creek Farm 2024 Chickens
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The first week with the chicks

May 4, 2024 1 min to read

This week we put together the chicken’s bucket feeder (still want a bucket waterer – soon!) and happily watched them start to use it. It’ll be much easier to fill …

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Owl Creek Farm 2024 Chickens
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Chickens? Chickens!!

April 23, 2024 1 min to read

Guys, it finally happened, we got chickens! We got word last week that we’d definitely be getting chicks from our neighbor, so we got to work converting half of our …

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Chickens!

January 26, 2012 3 min to read

“A chicken in every pot” – 1928 Rep. Party campaign slogan “Don’t have a pot to put it in” – 1928 Dem. Party response slogan It’s time to get back …

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