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a little organic farm -
Wednesday December 14, 2011 - By Farmer Cindy
We finally got our fall cover crop seeded and into the ground over the weekend, just in time for the rain that came on Monday. We planted organic seed of cayuse oats, beardless barley, red winter wheat and triticale, which we hope will grow well and...
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Fertile Chicken Eggs | Chicken Egg Incubators -
Thursday July 14, 2011 - By Suzie OConnor
If you’ve decided to raise your own chickens for food, here are a few tips to follow.
Avoid steroids and other chemicals for your flock. Although these materials may make your chickens larger, it is unhealthy for you. Any unnecessary chemicals can also...
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Home On The Range Family Farm -
Sunday July 03, 2011 - By Michael & Denise
Chicks and hatching eggs, available for purchase.
We will have quite a few extra roosters, for anyone who wants to butcher their own birds.
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Fertile Chicken Eggs | Chicken Egg Incubators -
Friday April 29, 2011 - By Suzie OConnor
Sexing baby chickens is not a very glamorous job but a necessary one. Wait until your chickens have lost their fuzz. Scoop up a group of feathers at the neck with an index card and examine the ends of the feathers. Rounded ends represent female and pointed...
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Pleasant Valley Farm -
Monday April 25, 2011 - By Emily
As a kid, my Easter mornings were pretty standard...a basket of chocolate bunnies and marshmallow peeps (and eating as many as possible before church!). Now, my Easter mornings are far less sugary, but with lots of the same creatures. Tiny, fuzzy...
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Rockgate Farm -
Monday March 28, 2011 - By Angela
What was I thinking!!
So, it looked like Spring was on the way. I loaded up the incubators, and planted the seeds. What happened? Who turned off the heat?
It's 32 degrees with a light spattering of snow . I've got 40 or...
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Foxhollow Poultry Farm -
Friday March 11, 2011 - By Tai
With a week's worth of elbow grease and 12 hour days we have finally created a space clean enough to call our hatchery. The walls are white, floor is epoxy painted, vented heater, lots of lights, incubators, hatcher,new work counter and...
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Home On The Range Family Farm -
Wednesday February 09, 2011 - By Michael & Denise
This past weekend we had 10 chicks hatch. 6 Buff Orpingtons and 4 Australorps. They are growing fast!
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Home On The Range Family Farm -
Thursday January 06, 2011 - By Michael & Denise
Well on Tuesday, January 4th, 2 Silver Appleyard ducklings hatched. Then on Thursday, Janurary 6, our Pekin hen died in my arms. Very sad.
Our next eggs in the incubator will be Buff Orpington and Australorp chickens. I will post when the expected hatch...
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Rockgate Farm -
Monday December 13, 2010 - By Angela
Heaven Help Me! I just can't seem to catch a break. All I want for Christmas, is a good night's sleep. Sounds like a song, doesn't it? Well, not funny! So, here I am, minding my own business....running around trying to get water on...
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Home On The Range Family Farm -
Tuesday November 16, 2010 - By Michael & Denise
For anyone interested in hatching out their own chicks, we will start the incubation process in Janurary. I will post on my blog, which breed I'm doing at a particular time. Anyone interested in hatching eggs or buying chicks let me know. I can ship eggs,...
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Fertile Chicken Eggs | Chicken Egg Incubators -
Thursday July 08, 2010 - By Suzie OConnor
When raising chickens in a city make sure you can provide plenty of area for chickens to roam free when necessary. You’ll want to be sure that you have the proper materials to keep the area clean, and healthy. Lastly, make sure your chickens get plenty of...
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Auntie Annie's Fields, LLC -
Monday June 14, 2010 - By Elizabeth
“Ethereal chicken” is almost always an oxymoron, like “plastic silverware.” For just a day or two though, when they are tiny and completely covered in golden down, chicks can be ethereal. Our new birds are in this brief phase of their lives. When they stand...
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Home On The Range Family Farm -
Wednesday May 26, 2010 - By Michael & Denise
We have Rhode Island Red chicks hatching on Friday, May 28th. If anyone is interested in purchasing chicks, call for arrangments. Chicks must be picked up in New Egypt and 3 must be purchased. Chickens are social creatures! The fluff balls are $3 each.
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Pleasant Valley Farm -
Monday May 17, 2010 - By Emily
Today is my 4th day off in a row, and by "off" I mean not commuting to my day job, because as usual, I've been busier here than I am at work! Friday, Dan and I worked until 1 AM getting the butcher shop finished. Although the Stevensons...
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JustPicked Farms -
Sunday May 16, 2010 - By Cheryl
May 16
The Barefoot Gardener
I went out into the garden this afternoon to try to get some things done on the only non-rainy day we’ve had in a while. I was fairly productive, and got corn, beans, and zucchini planted, and got the mulch...
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Home On The Range Family Farm -
Monday May 03, 2010 - By Michael & Denise
We had 21 chicks hatch Friday and Saturday. 14 eggs didn't hatch, still a great number did. Best hatch we have had yet! We will have lots of Brown eggs this winter. We are saving Rhode Island eggs for another incubator full. Hopefully the next hatch will be as...
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Home On The Range Family Farm -
Wednesday April 28, 2010 - By Michael & Denise
We have a incubator full of Rhode Island Red eggs from our "red head girls" and our "studly" RIR rooster. The first peeps and chirps were heard tonight. It is always exciting to get new chicks!
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JustPicked Farms -
Monday April 19, 2010 - By Cheryl
April 19
A productive week
This has been a very productive week at JustPicked Farms. On Thursday morning, I got a call at 5:30 am from the postoffice saying my chicks had arrived and I needed to pick them up. When I got there,...
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