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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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~How To Confuse Your Chicken~

~How To Confuse Your Chicken~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Terms like “chicken headed” easily come to mind….. Chickens are not deep introspective creatures…… They would not be your first poultry choice to have on a debate team….. They are always predictively and consistently simple….. However…reliably…every Spring…some of the hens (but not all) become “broody”….. *****(Definition of Broodiness)***** They insist on sitting on eggs…anyone’s and everyone’s eggs….. You can watch them carefully use their beak to roll an egg out from underneath a…

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Old Biddies

Old Biddies

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I just looked up the term “biddies”…and the vast universe of the all-knowing computer world says that biddies are baby chicks….. I’ve always heard the term referring to adult hens…usually older cranky hens…hens that are set in their ways….. Really…what does the computer know anyway?….. I’m going to stick with my old Ohio colloquialisms…biddies are bustling bodacious old broads….. …..take that…you omnipotent Internet….. But our biddies are doing what biddies do…in the Springtime……..

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*When In Doubt…More Chicks, Please*

*When In Doubt…More Chicks, Please*

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I’ve ordered more chickens…(to be specific…recently hatched baby chicks)….. They’re all different named breeds….. …..(and they all have pretty colored egg shells)….. I’ve probably ordered more than I should have………….I’m quite sure I did….. …..(you’d be surprised how much baby chicks cost these days)….. But like I’ve said before…I don’t do designer clothes or Prada shoes….. I do land….. And apparently…I buy chickens too….. I’ve bought chicks from this hatchery for many years……..

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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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…And The Seasons Change…

…And The Seasons Change…

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* It seems like the Holidays were just the other day….. But suddenly…there’s a light green haze showing up on the tree branches…and the sun’s rays have changed angles and everything suddenly seems more Spring-like….. What has really started to make the approach of Spring more obvious here is the uptick of egg production….. All the hens are beginning to lay with more regularity….. We’ve had the good fortune of having eggs all year…

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Another Poultry Post

Another Poultry Post

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* ***This is more of a compilation post~~of chicken sub-topics….. Just some recent occurrences that have happened in my World-of-Poultry…(said with a diminishing echo response)….. ***I thought this would be an interesting follow-up to our unidentifiable hen and/or rooster….. *****(Click Here for the Mystery Chicken Post)***** The hen (or maybe the rooster) has changed again….. …..kind of like the Horse-Of-A-Different-Color from the Wizard Of Oz….. I don’t know what breed of chicken they are……..

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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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~Hot Biddies~(and détente)…

~Hot Biddies~(and détente)…

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** It’s Hot!….. It’s now July in Sunny Subtropical Florida….. We are all miserably hot…and sitting in puddles of sweat….. …..and the chickens aren’t laying as many eggs in the heat….. My biddies are protesting…I don’t blame them….. The Runner Ducks stopped laying awhile ago…but that’s to be expected…because they’re only seasonal layers….. So…to attempt jump starting the chicken egg laying…I’ve started my old time-tested egg production enhancer….. I’m sprinkling cayenne pepper on their…

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The Mystery Chicken

The Mystery Chicken

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* There’s an odd chicken in our flock….. Unlike the additional (7+) surplus roosters who were recently & secretly flung over our fence (by a nearby/newbie neighbor)….. *****(!A. M. Cacophony! Explains How We Ended Up With Too Many Roosters)***** …..this Mystery Hen was raised here….. I buy my chickens as young chicks from several mail-order catalogs…I can pick the breed & sex of the babies I want…. I pick up the two-day old chicks…

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