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Chickens

Garden Notes

August 10, 2010

We’re on the homestretch in the garden now, so it’s time to start making notes for next year. First, double the size, again. There’s still a little bit of room in the old garden, but not much. Fortunately, about half of this year’s potato patch can be planted to other crops without raised beds. That [...]

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The Garden is In

July 1, 2010

We have at long last declared the garden “in”. Obviously there remains weeding, harvesting and succession planting, but no more new beds will be planted. We’re startling to eat out of it, but the harvest for storage won’t really start until August. July is hereby dedicated to fencing. I did a parry in septime to [...]

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The care and feeding of Icelandic Chickens

June 13, 2010

Icelandic Chickens are just chickens, I know. So a lot of how we care for them is just good chicken care practice. But they also have some unique characteristics. One of the things we discovered when we first got the birds is that they are very particular about where they want to lay their eggs. [...]

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May 24, 2010

I spent a lot of time this week getting a house and paddock ready for our two new Great Pyr puppies, Buffy and Faith, who arrived today. They have their own shed, and a decent sized paddock surrounded by cattle panels, right near the house. As a bonus, it keeps Bjarki in. The plan is [...]

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Garden Month

May 12, 2010

May is ‘Get in the Garden’ month here. The last frost date used to be Memorial Day, but over the last few years it’s been more like May 15. We’re hoping that last night’s frost was the last, but we’ll be holding the tomatoes and peppers indoors for at least a week to be sure. [...]

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Sunday Slaughter

March 29, 2010

We have about a dozen cockerels and three ducks that are more than ready to go off to Freezer Camp. We should have done them last fall, but after doing the turkeys for Thanksgiving, I just couldn’t face another bird. So stupidly, we fed them through the winter. It’s Spring, now however, and they were [...]

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New Things

February 20, 2010

The puppies are just over three weeks old now. They are getting so mobile! They waddle around all over the place, play with their siblings, and are starting to play with toys, too. Their tails are just starting to point upward and I’m seeing a few starting to curl. I think two of them (yellow [...]

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