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***51 Chicks Grow Up***

***51 Chicks Grow Up***

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* From the time the assorted baby chicks first arrived from Stromberg’s Hatchery….. …..to recently…when I let them loose in the (previously empty) Maran  chicken coop….. The chicks have grown and feathered out…they’re still babies…but they are much bigger….. When they first arrived…the babies needed a heat lamp…and a very warm draft-free environment….. They were all huddled in our multi-purpose wading pool…(which has seen a number of different baby species…who have grown & graduated…

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Idiosyncrasies & The Laying Hen

Idiosyncrasies & The Laying Hen

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I had thought we had gotten through all the broodiness of the hens this last Spring….. …..apparently not…and it’s late August….. I have some very stubborn ladies….. There is one of the Buff Brahma hens and one of the Buff Orpington hens who Do Not want to stop setting….. They are insisting on staying on their now lethal eggs on their grotty dirty nests…far beyond any appropriate hatching time….. …..(yuck)….. I suppose the…

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51 Chicks

51 Chicks

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* They’re here….. They came from a Minnesota hatchery via overnight service with the United States Postal Service….. And bright and early…they were waiting for us at our main post office….. I only ordered forty-two chicks(?)………….(and honestly…that was too many)….. …..but the hatchery delivered more………….they actually sent fifty-two….. And to date…fifty-one are peeping around…fluffy…cute…hale & hearty…and loud….. …..the one little chick that didn’t make it…died within the first forty-eight hours…I don’t know why…(true to…

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Chicken Wire Repair

Chicken Wire Repair

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Repairs around a farm are a revolving To Do List….. You can’t expect it’s ever going to be a completed list….. The best you can hope for is a list that’s semi under control….. Because sure as the day is long…there’s going to be a fresh disaster…which requires immediate attention…and quickly gets graduated to the Top of the List….. We have some fairly decent poultry coops here on the farm…they aren’t the of…

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Farm Repair Update

Farm Repair Update

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** We’ve been working hard on the farm…the outside weather still remains tolerable-ish….. But sunstroke…dehydration…are just around the corner once again….. General exposure to the sun in our sub-tropical hostile environment…(which we lovingly call a Florida Summer)…is almost here………….(Yippee!)….. But there’s always a lot that needs to be done…regardless of the heat….. We’ve gotten all the gate repair done…(plus I’ve got a good inventory of spare gates–for the big limbs that are just waiting…

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Another Showdown

Another Showdown

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* It’s hard to tell one opossum from another opossum….. But I think this is a different one…because he (or she) was bigger…his fur was healthier and smoother…and there wasn’t a hitch in his get-along….. Regardless…the other night…I was called out of my bed and into action to protect my poultry…(yet again)….. There is definitely a repeat pattern here…it always at night…after everyone has gone to bed…and I’m always in my underwear or my…

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Mister Possum–Re-visited

Mister Possum–Re-visited

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* ~~~~~Try My Posts on SubStack/Click Here~~~~~ Mister Possum is still in the neighborhood….. …..he’s now considering our little homestead his tromping grounds….. Even as possums go…he’s nasty looking….. …..he’s been around the block a few times…tripped off the curb…gotten run over…but he keeps coming up swinging….. I’ve got to admire his chutzpah…I’ll give him that….. …..but he’s a flea-bitten limping geriatric nuisance….. And I can’t shoot him….. …..because Doctor Brigid said so….. He’s…

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*Continued Milton Clean-Up*

*Continued Milton Clean-Up*

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Hurricane Milton blew out one of the walls of the chicken coop….. I felt bad for the old biddies…when we checked on the outside damage the next morning after Milton had passed….. …..and we saw them all sitting on their normal perches…but their fluffy backsides were exposed to the entire front yard….. We were able to keep them temporarily safe with some quickly nailed up wood scraps….. …..but a permanent fixed needed to…

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Milton Left A Mess

Milton Left A Mess

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** There’s so much to clean-up….. So much….. ~~~But We Are Still Counting Our Blessings~~~ There are so many branches and leaves everywhere (and down our chimney in the den)….. The trees all look bare….. Multiple burn piles are necessary…but things are so soggy…it’s hard to keep one going….. …..unless it’s an electrical vehicle…with a battery that’s been exposed to salt water…(flooding from the Gulf of Mexico)….. …..and then you can’t put out the…

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Snakes On A Plane!

Snakes On A Plane!

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Nope…it’s not really “Snakes On A Plane”!….. …..it’s more like…”Snakes In The Coop”!….. …..again….. And my reactive vocabulary was strikingly the same….. …..(and not printable)….. I thought we might eke through this summer without being up close & personal with any snakes….. But…alas…it was not meant to be….. Unfortunately…chickens attract predators….. They seem to run around cackling and wearing sandwich-signs saying they are available as tasty/crunchy treats….. They’re considered the personal drive-thru snack…

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