November 8, 2010
Frost has not stopped all garden activity
It’s been about a week since our first major frost of autumn, marking the end of most, but not all, activity in the garden. The frost was pretty late, I think, even for as far south as we are—so we counted ourselves lucky.
October 9, 2010
The Ameraucana's first blue egg (click to view larger)
This afternoon, I was pleased to discover that our Ameraucana chicken laid her first egg, and as expected, it’s blue!
As you may recall, in posts dating back to July (Chicken Drama I and II), we’ve been having trouble creating harmony between our only surviving chicken from the original three, Marcia, and our three newest chickens (the kids). After a few days of the four of them living together, it became clear that the Ameraucana (the grey one) was receiving the brunt of Marcia’s negative attention. Even after we separated Marcia from the other three, the Ameraucana’s younger “siblings” continued to pester her; as a result, we separated her from Marcia and the younger two for almost a month. (more…)
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Tags: chicken, drama, eggs
September 30, 2010
Any day now we’re expecting one of our three younger chickens to start laying eggs. This past weekend we gathered some bets on when this might be. Feel free to add yours in the comments (some have already lost, myself included).
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August 10, 2010
From 7 months of grocery shopping and being at the prime of farm produce season, we have a bounty of food that “needs eatin'” (as my grandmother would say). We decided that this week’s challenge would be to NOT grocery shop all week, and to only use what we had in our cupboards and what came out of our garden, from our CSA, or from a farmer’s market. To facilitate this process, this evening we set out all of the edible food we have in our house and divvied it up auction style. (more…)
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Tags: challenge week, eggs, food, meat
June 29, 2010
Chicken supplies, $461. First egg in our farming project, priceless.
Wonder of wonder, miracle of miracles! Our one lone chicken, a Red Star who I call Marcia B., laid our first egg today! As excited as Caleb and I were to find the egg in the nest box this evening, it was also a little bittersweet, knowing that the 3 chickens that were killed last week could have been laying this week. (more…)
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