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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 […]

Filed Under: Livestock Tagged With: chicken coop, Chickens, eggs, nesting box

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 […]

Filed Under: Homesteading, Livestock Tagged With: chicken, Chickens, eggs

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