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Changing Seasons and a Thankful Heart

November 21, 2022

Changing seasons. I winterized the chicken coop this past weekend. I did it just in time because this morning I woke to frozen bird baths and 25 degrees. My breath was frosty and the air burned my lungs as I inhaled, standing at the bus stop with my daughter. It’s cold. Even poor Sara didn’t…

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Begin, Again

November 9, 2022

I’ve been absent. I like to think that I have just been doing a lot of behind the scenes work. I’ve been called upon for some other thing–hard things and feeling like I have made a difference in places other than here, on the website. When I started blogging 12 years ago, I used this…

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7 Ways to Survive a Pandemic with Backyard Chickens

January 3, 2022

I guess you would call me a seasoned chicken keeper. We’ve now kept chickens for 12 years. It seems like only yesterday when they arrived in the mail. Now, we are still on our third flock and seven hens remain. I’m so tempted to order more this spring, because I can’t imagine my life without…

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Chick Chick: Becoming a Chicken

October 20, 2021

I have a story to share about a Guinea hen, I call Chick Chick. I’m not quite sure if it is a happy ending or not. Maybe it’s bittersweet. It’s hard to know if animals are happy but sometimes, I guess the best we can do is take clues. I’m not sure if she wanted…

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The Importance of Being Perfectly Imperfect

May 24, 2021

I recall, as a little girl, my parents reminding me a lot about nothing being perfect. As a perfectionist at heart, it has taken me a while to become accustomed to things being out of sorts or unarranged or not how I think they should be. I think that motherhood helps make you realize what…

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The Silver Linings Will Come Eventually

March 3, 2021

We are in trying times. It’s weird to think that we are living in one of the biggest historical events of our lifetime. I wonder to myself, how will this be written down and recorded in history and what will life be like after this is over? Sometimes, when we are in the thick of…

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The Virtues of Keeping Older Chickens

January 25, 2021

It been a long running joke that at our house some years it feels like we have both a nursery and nursing home for chickens. This fall and winter the chickens have not been laying eggs after their fall molt. In the chicken world, they are deemed old. In our current flock, our youngest hens…

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Guinea Hens: The Unexpected Visitors

December 29, 2020

A couple of months ago, I was outside in my garden cleaning up fall leaves. When I’m outside I like to listen to the wild birds and watch them flit to and fro on the bird feeders. Suddenly, I had heard a call coming from the other side of the yard. I didn’t quite know…

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Geo Bird Cage: The Parakeets Get a New Home

November 2, 2020

I have kept parakeets since I was 12 years old. Growing up, my parents enjoyed my sisters and I having pets. Over the years, we’ve had dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, hermit crabs, and tropical fish, but it was my blue and white parakeet named Pipet, after 7th grade science class, that started my love affair…

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Gardening with Free Ranging Chickens

July 6, 2020

One of the most popular question that I am often asked is, can I free range my chickens in my yard and not have it ending up looking like a complete dust bowl? The simple answer is yes. Over the years I have developed some tried and true techniques that should help to help keep both…

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Changing Seasons and a Thankful Heart

Begin, Again

7 Ways to Survive a Pandemic with Backyard Chickens

Chick Chick: Becoming a Chicken

The Importance of Being Perfectly Imperfect

The Silver Linings Will Come Eventually

The Virtues of Keeping Older Chickens

Guinea Hens: The Unexpected Visitors

Geo Bird Cage: The Parakeets Get a New Home

Gardening with Free Ranging Chickens

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Changing Seasons and a Thankful Heart

Begin, Again

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7 Ways to Survive a Pandemic with Backyard Chickens

Chick Chick: Becoming a Chicken

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