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2012 Calendar

December 13, 2011

By popular demand and with the help of our amazing fans on Facebook, we have created a beautiful 13 month calendar. This is our tribute to chickens and gets up close and personal with over 80 different birds. It has been a labor of love. Thank all of our amazing friends and fans we have met over…

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Chickens Stories from Our Nest

It’s Good to Be an Explorer

December 13, 2011

Chickens are explorers. When the girls were three months old, they began to explore outside their coop and run. I would find them apprehensive, yet willing to go to new heights. This picture is one of my favorites. It was a wonderful sunny summer day and for the first time, Sunshine decided to climb up…

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Chickens Coop Care Health Issues

Diatomaceous Bombing

December 12, 2011

A little while back I had posted about tiny little bugs invading the outside of the coop and run. Well since then, their population has been slowly increasing. I never found them on the chickens or in the coop and I would only find them early in the morning and at dusk. During the day,…

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Main Dishes Recipes Soups

Easy Beef Stew

December 10, 2011

The holiday season is upon us. Days seem so sort with so much to get accomplished. Today, I thought that I would share one of my husband’s favorites. It is easy and very comforting. Serve it up with crusty french bread and a side salad. This one is a keeper.Read more

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Chickens Stories from Our Nest

Thursdays with Tilly

December 9, 2011

Keeping chickens is like therapy for the soul. Somehow, these feathered little ones seem to melt away things that seem to matter so much to people in the human world but aren’t really important at all. Everyone has these sort of days. Ones that start out with oversleeping. Ones filled with sadness. Ones that deliver…

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Chickens

Cooper Boone

December 7, 2011

Two days ago, I received a message in my inbox. It was from a new friend, Cooper Boone. As many of you know, I had the privilege and honor last month to travel to New York City and accept a Blue Ribbon Blogger Award for Tilly’s Nest from Country Living Magazine. Up on the 44th floor of Hearst…

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Chickens Health Issues

Slugs: A Hidden Danger for Backyard Chickens

December 6, 2011

When my girls were little they loved dining on slugs. Cape Cod can be a windy damp place perfect for harboring families of slugs. Those slug families love living in our yard, tasty perennials are abundant and offer up a wide variety of new dining choices everywhere they slither. Prior to keeping chickens, we used organic pet friendly treatments…

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Chickens Stories from Our Nest

Grown Up

December 5, 2011

Dottie Speckles is 8 months old today. Photo Credit: Tilly’s Nest

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Chickens Stories from Our Nest

Stolen Moment

December 3, 2011

Sometimes I like to sneak up on the coop so that the girls do not know I am even there. I hug the North side of the coop as I approach and then I slowly lift up the nesting box lid and watch them through the tiny coop door. I watch as they scratch in…

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Chickens Stories from Our Nest

Musical Nesting Boxes

December 3, 2011

Fifi Fifi is over being broody! It seems as though this little fluff ball had been broody for over a month. During these past couple of days, I could see the veil lifting. She has been first with Feathers to jump out the coop door in the morning and I began to find her spending…

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2012 Calendar

It’s Good to Be an Explorer

Diatomaceous Bombing

Easy Beef Stew

Thursdays with Tilly

Cooper Boone

Slugs: A Hidden Danger for Backyard Chickens

Grown Up

Stolen Moment

Musical Nesting Boxes

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