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Chicken Babies
It’s been months since I’ve updated you on my feathered babies, and they’ve grown up right before my eyes! The ladies are now four months old and all of their adult feathers are in. They roam the yard...
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Homemade Dried Cherries
There is a magical cherry tree at Thomas’ grandma’s that bears two types of fruit from the same tree. Bing and Queen Anne cherries both grow on the tree. The neat thing about it is that Bing cherries...
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Homemade Cherry Juice
Thanks for all of your love and support. We are still at my in-laws but I have had this little beauty in the archives waiting for you. Happy Saturday to you… As I mentioned before we had a bumper crop...
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Chicken Triumph
I was driving home last night from Salt Lake with only my thoughts to entertain me. The babies had all fallen asleep and the car was quiet without Thomas to chat with. I had spent the day at my first...
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Eggs Shells for Chickens: Oyster Shell Replacement
Let’s talk chickens. Having backyard chickens has been a ton of fun. They are more like pets than anything, but the best part is they provide eggs in exchange for feeding them. I like having productive...
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Backyard Chickens: All Cooped Up
Chicken update! Do you guys even like to hear about the ladies? I love to talk about them because I love the chickens, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that you all want to hear about them. Really, do...
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Birds of a Feather Stick Together
I have a hard time not calling the remaining three chickens “the survivors” after that tragic day the neighbor’s dogs killed six of my hens (Heartbreak and details on that day here). But survivors they...
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Backyard Chickens in the Snow
It’s been a while since I updated you on how the hens are doing. I wasn’t very prepared for winter. Their coop is fine, but it’s not incredibly warm and is a bit drafty. I did some reading about the...
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Popular Farming Chickens Magazine
Remember that one time I was in a Popular Farming Chickens magazine?! Oh, you have no idea what I’m talking about? That’s because the issue just made it onto shelves!! I’ve been sitting on this secret...
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New Chicks
I love me some chickens. Last spring we got our very first bunch of new chicks from the feed store, raised them inside our house (because we were in the middle of remodeling), and then moved them out...
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Growing a Vegetable Garden in Southern Utah
Welcome to the 2013 vegetable garden! This year has been really different for us, so I thought I’d bring you all along for the journey of growing a vegetable garden in Southern Utah. Refresher: We just...
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Raising baby sheep: the cutest animals around
I’m so excited to finally share this post with you! We got baby sheep, aka lambs, last week and they are the cutest little critters you’ve ever laid eyes on. I’d like to introduce you to the newest...
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Not What I Expected
If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook then this isn’t totally new news, but I feel like it deserves a post of its own. Saturday was an awesome day filled with productivity and check marks next to...
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DIY Portable Chicken Run
DIY portable chicken run- Last Saturday was awesomely productive and we got this puppy built, moved to the Shanty, and put all of the hens and chicks together. The chicks had been living in an...
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DIY chicken water and feeder from 5-gallon buckets
Not everyone needs a post on a DIY chicken water and feeder from 5-gallon buckets, but someone out there does need it! Is it you? Even if you don’t have your own hens yet this might be something to...
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Can sheep eat sweet peas?
Sheep update: Backstory: If you are new to the blog I introduced the lambs here and then was sad to announced that one died unexpectedly here. After I wrote last week’s post on Freckle’s unexpected...
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Garden 2013
We enjoyed an awesome short vacation in Yellowstone and Idaho this weekend. I went to the garden first yesterday when we got home to check on everything and I just couldn’t believe the difference that...
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