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Motherhood is Universal

January 3, 2012

Last Winter Dolly is broody yet again. Her instinctual drive to be a mother never ceases to amaze me. Like clockwork, she completes being broody after 3 weeks. After about a week off the nest, she begins to lay again. Once she lays about 10 eggs, she returns to the empty nesting box and restarts…

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Art by Mr. Tilly’s Nest

December 15, 2011

My children love to draw. Sometimes, they like to sit back and watch my husband draw things for them. Many times these involve drawing aliens and animals. I can remember one day, my kids asked him to draw lots of animals. When he completed drawing everything that came to their minds, the kids asked him…

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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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Saturday Serenity

November 26, 2011

This morning I awoke to one of those peaceful and quiet Saturday mornings. There was a serene calmness about everything outside. The wild birds were quietly bouncing amongst the branches in the trees. Neighbors were still sleeping and not even distant cars could be heard zooming past in the background. The woods surrounding our…

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Chickens Seasonal Care Stories from Our Nest

Fall Clean-Up

November 20, 2011

Fall clean-up began in our yard this morning after much procrastination. By mid-November, the excitement of Autumn’s leaves has worn off. I have cleaned the yard of leaves for the past five weeks. This week was hopefully the final week and a thorough job was on today’s to-do-list. All of the perennial beds were cleaned…

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NPR and Tilly

November 9, 2011

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of meeting Joel from the Woods Hole NPR station. I had received an email that she had discovered the blog and was interested in doing a radio piece on the girls of Tilly’s Nest. She came across us while researching farming on Cape Cod. We reviewed our schedules, arranged a…

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Sleep Walking

October 26, 2011

I had a meeting this evening and my husband locked up the girls. We are expecting rain tomorrow, so I double checked the coop’s windows. I also wanted to be sure that no one was sleeping in the nesting boxes. Under the cover of darkness, I approached the coop. Checking the nesting boxes for sleeping…

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The Unexpected Discovery

September 30, 2011

As I was refilling the feeder a couple of days ago, I happened to notice some spilled scratch on the workbench. Mindful of wasting and little critters, I brushed the 10 pieces or so of scratch into my hand and tossed it in the feeder with the rest of the feed pellets. Big mistake! That…

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Chickens Eggs Health Issues

Egg Eater

September 26, 2011

Yesterday, I went out to the coop. I could not wait to say hello to the girls. I missed them so. It was funny. At first, I do not think that they recognized me. I opened up the coop door and tossed scratch onto the run floor. No one seemed to care that I was…

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A Week in Photos, Monday

September 19, 2011

March 22, 2011 Baby chick hiding under Dolly’s wing We are away this week in the Carribean celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary! Feel free to leave comments and captions for this week’s photos. I can’t wait to read them all when I come back. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this week of photos.…

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Motherhood is Universal

Art by Mr. Tilly’s Nest

Musical Nesting Boxes

Saturday Serenity

Fall Clean-Up

NPR and Tilly

Sleep Walking

The Unexpected Discovery

Egg Eater

A Week in Photos, Monday

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