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We added nine Speckled Sussex pullets to the flock this spring, and at 20 weeks they’re just about to start laying. I can’t wait to see what color eggs they really lay. I really adore these new girls. Their plumage is quite beautiful – deep brown feathers tipped with iridescent green splotches and a small white [...] Yesterday was the “great chicken harvest of 2010″. A fantastic mix of friends, family and acquaintances came together to butcher 99 broilers for our freezers. It’s amazing how much faster and more confident we’ve gotten in this process over the past two years – once we all got our “muscle memory” back, and got the [...] This weekend was enough to make us think that spring had come to Seattle. But alas, it’s just a bit of nice weather that will be replaced by rain again later this week. We worked on the bathroom a bit this weekend, but we also just got out and enjoyed the sun. I pulled some winter [...] Egg laying is tied to the age of the hen and hours of daylight. Typically, hens will stop laying in the fall to molt and then likely won’t start laying again until early spring as the days are too short for them to lay (they need 12 – 14 hours of daylight). In past years we’ve [...] It’s been a while since I did an odds and ends post, but it seems appropriate since I don’t have any complete ideas right now. ***** If you haven’t seen Nita’s post about why her grass fed beef doesn’t take even 10% of the water to raise that CAFO beef does, you should. She articulated better than [...]
I get this weather forecast email every afternoon. I originally signed up for it so that I’d have pre-warning of frosts in fall 2008. I’ve kept it because it’s often useful. We thought last night was cold at 13F, but tonight the prediction is for only 9 degrees above 0. Wow – I [...] We’ve had an ongoing predator problem again all year, losing 6 hens over the course of 9 months. Not a great track record, but I was pretty much chalking it up to the cost of keeping hens and letting them free range all over the property. I keep saying I’m going to lock them in [...] |
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