Diapers are just the beginning

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This is what I added on for the new chicks. The little house was made entirely out of scraps of plywood that we had left over from the original side of the coop. The roof on the new side was the old roofing material that had been on the old kid’s [...]

For the first few days of a new chick’s life, some people recommend that you put towels over the litter to make sure that the babies learn that the food that you are giving them is what they need to eat and not the pine shavings.   I used some of our old prefold diapers. Not [...]

Yea! We got four eggs in one day from our five chickens.
I think that the only one that is not laying (currently 24 weeks old) is our Silver Laced Wyandotte.
She’s pretty, but she’s still a freeloader.
Today, the pullets are eating some leftover melon that we got from a farmer. Two days ago they were snacking [...]