Monday, February 20, 2012

Hatching Won't Wait a Minute Longer, Or, The Peepers Made Me Do It

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Really, need I say more?  If you had collected these beauties in the last four days, and the sun was shining, and you heard the peepers last...
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Saturday, February 4, 2012

Gearing Up for Spring Hatches: Breeding Pens

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If you have only one rooster, you don't need to prepare at all for hatching--just collect the eggs from hens you wish to use as breed ...
Monday, January 30, 2012

Itching to Hatch Chicks--Want Your Own Olive Eggers or French Coppered Black Marans??

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I can't wait any longer...it is time to get things organized for our first Spring hatch.  I saw the University of Nebraska hatch cam tod...
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Watch Some Hatching Eggs with Us!

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a 2011 hatch I am not quite ready to set and hatch eggs yet this Spring, as I like to be able to put them out asap, and they need higher...
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Friday, January 13, 2012

Black Javas--Doing My Part to Save an Endangered Heritage Breed

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 Hard to believe I have made it this long without a post dedicated to Black Javas.  You wouldn't even know they are my first priority...
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Sunday, January 8, 2012

Olive Eggs, from Olive Eggers, at Long Last!

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It is with IMMENSE pleasure that I show off my lovely Ophelia's first 15 eggs (in just 18 days!).  She began laying on Dec 18, almost ...
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An Update on Us--Charmed Chickens on the Move

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It's been a long while since I posted, and we moved to a different city in the meantime.  We suffered a terrible loss when Gypsy was eat...