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Eggs

Miscellany

April 6, 2009

Our potatoes kept fine all winter, then as soon as it was vaguely spring, they started to sprout and shrivel. I give up. How can the seed potatoes, in a bucket in the basement where conditions really won’t change till May, know when it’s March? The annoying part is that the ground is still frozen [...]

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Our Icelandic Chickens

December 20, 2008

The chicken coop is so much prettier now that it’s painted. I hated hated hated the particle board that we used, but it was a time of year that we didn’t have our own wood and needed it in a real hurry. We built it in March of 2007. I wonder why our sawmill wasn’t [...]

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Fowl Nutrition

April 27, 2008

Lisa and I both noticed that the eggshells have been getting a bit thin in the last week or so. I hypothesize that this is because the hens have switched from living on layer pellets to foraging which they find far yummier. However layer pellets are fortified with calcium while bugs are apparently not. I [...]

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Spring Goes Sproing

March 23, 2008

Spring is oh so slowly coming. The twice weekly storms are more rain than snow, and I can leave the hose out to water the animals. We had the same temperatures in December, but the December sun was not enough to thaw the hose in the afternoon, while the March sun does. That saves a [...]

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Hi ho!

January 24, 2008

Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to work we go! When we do morning chores, one of the things we do first is open up the hatch on the chicken coop, then jump back, quickly, because they are coming out, and coming out fast! No matter how cold, these Icelandic chickens are out and about! [...]

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Midwinter Bee Update

January 9, 2008

We’ve had a few warm days this week, and the bees are flying after six weeks or more cooped up in the hives. I was thrilled to see that the hive I thought would be dead by Christmas is still alive, if weak. They must have a queen after all. I gave all four hives [...]

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Navigating rough waters

December 19, 2007

One of the (thousand) times I was walking the puppy today, I was pretty sure I heard what sounded like an eggaluyah. But since I had the (naughty) puppy with me, I didn’t want to take her into the coop to find out, so I just told Frank. I was right. (I speak chicken!) The [...]

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