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Building a place to Lay Eggs

February 10, 2014 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

If you’ve seen our previous post, you know our hens have started laying finally. It took just over 5 months to get them to start but our hens came of age right in the middle of winter. Which in itself isn’t ideal. Chickens like sunlight and when the days are shorter they tend to go […]

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Happy Chickens

January 18, 2014 by Jason Diehl 2 Comments

We had the opportunity to continue finishing up the Chicken Coop. We still aren’t completely finished but we have one door cut so on nice days they can come out. There is one problem: They don’t want to come out. HAHA. Ashley says that the reason they don’t want to come out is because the […]

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Moving The Chicken Coop

November 30, 2013 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

As you may know from my previous article: Can’t Fight the Clipboard I had to move the chicken coop because I built it too close to the diesel pipeline that I just found out rolls through the back of our property. The joys of homesteading. There is always a surprise around the corner. Moving the chicken […]

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Breaking Ground on the Chicken Coop

August 4, 2013 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

Finally breaking ground on the chicken coops. We’ve had a lot of set backs but overall it’s been working well in the end. These first 4 posts are the 4 corners it took us all weekend, but of course that’s including the time it took to get supplies as well as the fact that it […]

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