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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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Breakfast this morning was homegrown

February 9, 2014 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

I’ve been waiting some time now to see if our chickens were ever going to start laying. They are just over 5 months old now, but I figured with the cold weather and decreased sunlight, they came to age in the time they would normally be molting. So I knew it would be a little […]

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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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Can’t fight the clipboard

September 17, 2013 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

Well I was sitting at home one day and I heard my driveway alarm suddenly go off. I get up and take a look of course. And I see a white truck driving past the house and into the back of the property. This is a concern of course. Who is just making themselves at […]

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The hassle of chicken water

September 8, 2013 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

Chickens tend to be typical bird brains. They just don’t understand that they need water to survive and that it tastes much better when it’s clean. So when I set up the standard chicken watering devices, the chickens stand on the edges, they go to the bathroom in it. They scratch around close to it. […]

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Chicks arrive

August 28, 2013 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

The chickens finally arrive! So we ordered 22 Hens, 2 Roosters, for a total of 24 Birds. In addition, they sent us one extra of what we ordered in case one didn’t make it, and they also sent us one free “rare bird”. We aren’t entirely sure what the rare bird is just yet. I’m […]

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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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