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My hens are here!!!
When my loving husband started pestering me to go get some chickens, I knew it was finally time. Our coop has been finished for months, and we got our city license in late October. It really was time...
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The first egg, the first egg!!!
The first egg in our new chicken coop, laid by Chicken Little! I’m as excited as a new grandmother. Chicken Little, our Black Australorp, laid the first egg a bit after noon today. She went into the...
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Raising urban chickens isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. This is not turning out to be the idyllic food source that I had hoped for. My flock is small (3 hens) and when Henny Penny up and died of...
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Farewell to Henrietta, Hello to spring
I have sad news to report. My favorite hen, Henrietta the Black Australorp, has passed away at the age of 8 years. She hadn’t changed into the normal red, swollen comb and wattle of spring, so I knew...
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Adventures in keeping urban chickens
I have been keeping hens for six and a half years now. I started with three adult hens of about one and a half years of age in the spring of 2010. I wanted pullets, but the farmer sold me hens that...
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Egg production on our urban “farmlet” over time
Aw, who else graphs out the egg production of their chicken flock? Only an uber-nerd would do that. Guilty as charged! I keep a tiny flock of chickens in our tiny southern California yard. Our entire...
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