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Spring Cleaning

March 25, 2011

Nice and Clean Today after yesterday’s snow, I could not wait to get out and do a little cleaning. I originally planned to just clean the interior of the coop. However, as I began, I decided to clean the whole entire thing! I let the original flock out to free-range. I locked Meesha and Autumn…

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Spring Visitors and Traffic Jams

March 21, 2011

Well, the girls must know Spring is in the air. Except for Dolly with her new brood of seven chicks, all of my Silkie Bantams are experiencing degrees of broodiness. Yesterday, Meesha and Autumn monopolized two of the nesting boxes. Today, Feathers joined them occupying all three. Tilly has taken on the role of nesting box…

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Cutest Composters Ever!

March 7, 2011

Do you mean I’m cute? Yesterday, was such a taste of Spring! It actually reached 55 degrees F. All day, I anxiously glanced outside, just crazy to get into the run and clean out the beautiful compost the flock has been making all Winter long. Finally, around 2pm, I was able to escape into the…

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Bad Hair Day

February 3, 2011

Clockwise from top left: Autumn, Feathers, Meesha, Feathers The northeast was slammed again with more snow. The Cape got rain and let me say, lots of it. The ground was already frozen with a combination of old snow and ice. This did not allow the freezing rain to go many places. In some…

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Runny Egg

January 13, 2011

Late this morning when I went out to collect the eggs, I found 2 eggs in the nesting boxes. After collecting those two eggs, I looked out into the run to see all the chickens. In the middle of the run was the smallest little Silkie egg you ever have seen. It was being trampled…

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A New Pecking Order

December 15, 2010

It looks like our a new pecking order has finally established itself. Interestingly enough, all of the new girls are not at the bottom. Here is the line up how I see it: Tilly Oyster Cracker Sunshine Dolly Feathers Autumn Meesha Tilly remains head hen. I thought that she would stay there based on her…

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Updates from the Coop

November 30, 2010

Well it has now been about a week since Dolly, Autumn and Meesha were introduced to the flock. The transition has been surprisingly smooth. They are quickly reestablishing a new pecking order. I think that Feathers is the happiest. She is no longer at the bottom of the order. She is even doing a little pecking herself. …

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New Chicks on the Block

November 24, 2010

I found a local woman who is selling Silkie pullets and she lives about 5 minutes away from me. Ironically, our paths have crossed before but I did not know that she had chickens! This past Spring, she ordered straight runs of various colors of Silkies. They were born in May making them about 4 weeks older than…

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