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Graduation

May 31, 2024 2 min to read

It’s a little milestone, but it still counts! The chicks have graduated to poultry grower feed, from the medicated poultry starter feed that they’ve eaten since we brought them home. …

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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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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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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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