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Chicken Proofing Our Backyard

June 11, 2014September 25, 2014 Travis Toler 0 Comments bird netting, chicken proofing, chickens, free-ranging, over grazing, pasture, scratch feed

Chicken proofing a backyard is quite a bit like baby-proofing a house. You really have to focus on the area

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Easy Fodder For Rabbits and Chickens

June 5, 2014June 5, 2014 Cheryl Blatnik 0 Comments barley, chickens, feed, fodder, grains, livestock, livestock feed, Rabbits, soak, sprouting

After acquring the rabbits back in March, we were feeding them rabbits pellet food instead of fodder. We would buy them an 8

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Update: Rabbits and Chickens

May 14, 2014May 8, 2014 Travis Toler 0 Comments baby ckicks, chickens, cracked corn, feed, garden, orchard grass, oyster shells, rabbit pellets, Rabbits, rabbits and chickens, timothy hay

We have been tending and caring for both rabbits and chickens this year in the hopes of producing fresh eggs

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Livestock 

Chickens: The Girls Are Moving Out!

April 23, 2014April 30, 2014 Travis Toler 0 Comments baby chicks, beaks, birds, chicken coop, chicken poop, chickens, chicks, combs, composting, eggs, feather, hens, layer hens, livestock, nitrogen

  The closing was final last Saturday, and they got the keys to their new home. We are looking forward

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Another Easter Dinner to Top Them All

April 21, 2014April 21, 2014 Travis Toler 0 Comments apple pears, chickens, deviled eggs, easter dinner, gala apples, garden beds, mushroom spawn, mushrooms, onions, pacific rose apples, pineapple, plants, potatoes, prime rib, raspberries, snow peas, squash, standing rib, strawberries, water

Sunday was another busy day here on the homestead. Cheryl had been working in the kitchen getting our Easter dinner

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Livestock 

The Chicken Project

April 8, 2014April 21, 2014 Travis Toler 1 Comment baby chicks, chickens, egg layers, fresh eggs, hens, layers, livestock

In addition to getting rabbits we also decided that we would get some more chickens. We had already decided on

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