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the first chicks arrived!
The arrival of new chicks just never gets old for me! I picked up 100 broiler chicks from the post office early this morning. They came from Rochester Hatchery in Alberta. See that sun patch in the...
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It’s JS day!
That’s Joel Salatin Day… But not for several hours yet, because there’s a lot to get done before I go catch the ferry. The new layer chicks arrived at 6 am this morning – if you’ve been following, you...
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Future egg layers
The new laying flock arrived Wednesday morning, 58 of them. These are Red Sussex Cross, a hybrid from Rochester Hatchery in Alberta. I haven’t tried this breed before, but they are supposed to be...
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Smart Chic and Dumb Chick
SMART CHIC: Our younger daughter went to a Mad Hatter Tea birthday party – apparently 14 is not too old for dress up, because she went in several layers from our old dress up box, and spent a good...
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Catching up
We’re in that place in the seasons where we’re feeling like it’s a bit of a race to keep up with everything. Since I posted about the farm just over a month ago, we’ve covered a lot of ground, and...
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Dauntless
I’ve been prepping the brooder for the layer chicks due to arrive this week. All my helpers have abandoned me temporarily because the building made them feel like Ron Weasley: Frankly, I feel this to...
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Future Egg Layers
We got the call from Canada Post around 0715, in the middle of feeding pigs and letting out hens, so headed out right away. We got the chicks home by about 0745. By 0815, they were all in the...
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Where did August go?
It’s been quite a month, quite a summer actually. You will notice none of these pictures show progress or completion on the various house painting projects that are STILL on the go (third summer,...
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Circles of Life
Were we led all this way for Birth or Death? There was a birth certainly. We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death, but had thought they were different. T.S. Eliot (Journey of the...
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Summer growth
Piglets, chicks, flowers – all growing like crazy. I may not be saying much on the blog, but there is stuff happening here. An hour after they arrived, 6 July. Abut 6 weeks old. The piglets arrived...
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