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Chicken Greens
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Chicken Greens

Posted on April 28, 2015 by leite14 • Leave a comment

  Keeping horses on small acreage is all about grass and land management. We are constantly aware of how the grass is doing. I reseed every spring and fall to ensure our horses have enough quality grass to graze. That means rotating horse yards and keeping the chickens off the grass during reseeding periods. There are … Continue reading →

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Chicken Yard Compost Bin

Posted on August 17, 2013 by leite14 • Leave a comment

The chickens will finally have a compost heap that stays ‘a heap’. We’ve always made grass clipping and all around compost piles in their run but it takes them no time to flatten it out. Now, they can still scratch around to their little many hearts’ contentment and we should be able to put their … Continue reading →

What’s Up Momma?
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What’s Up Momma?

Posted on July 30, 2013 by leite14 • Leave a comment

Sally hen has been a doting mom. She seems to have accepted her babies’ strange eating habits. She still tries to get them to scratch the dirt, like good chicks should. Her chick-lings watch their momma and then run off for their wet mash or to chase an airborne bug. Three of the ducklings are … Continue reading →

Blended Family
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Blended Family

Posted on July 27, 2013 by leite14 • Leave a comment

Our Muscovy hen, Little Bo Peep, was taken by a fox at dusk this week. This is our first, and hopefully last, run in with a fox. In our years of keeping fowl, this has never happened. It took a few minutes, and finding a trail of white feathers leading to the wood-line, for it … Continue reading →

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Chicken Herding

Posted on July 3, 2013 by leite14 • Leave a comment

Aussie pup has taken to herding the far ranging chickens back to their yard. He usually ignores the one or two hens who fly over but disapproves of the rooster, Hans, from doing the same. This four month old pup has learned to “bring ’em back” on command. Continue reading →

Free Ranging Chickens
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Free Ranging Chickens

Posted on July 3, 2013 by leite14 • Leave a comment

The chickens sometimes venture out of their 1/2 acre yard. This is despite being landscaped with lilacs, fruit and nut trees, and an assortment of edible plants. They want a change sometimes. I am now convinced the saying, “The grass is always greener on the other side” came from watching horses and chickens. They are … Continue reading →

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Homage

Posted on July 3, 2013 by leite14 • Leave a comment

Chicken Chicken was a rescue of sorts. Some folks had decided a flock of chickens would be a good thing. They didn’t think it all the way through. What do you do with those cute fluffies when some end up future roos? These folks dumped their baby roo off at a local vet’s. That vet … Continue reading →

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