Showing posts with label poultry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poultry. Show all posts
Monday, February 6, 2012

BEAUTIFUL ROOSTER GOES MEAN

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Our beautiful Speckled Sussex rooster is beginning to turn aggressive.  He has 48 chickens to protect and he's taking his job way too...
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Build your Own Egg Washer--The Egg Jacuzzi!

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Egg Jacuzzi Yes, it's an Egg Jacuzzi, and it gets our eggs sparkling clean!  Chris built his Egg Jacuzzi along the basic design ...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Building a Small Farm Mixer for Poultry Feed Production

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It's chicken feed! There's a certain gift some people have in seeing a problem and then finding a viable solution. Proble...
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Friday, January 6, 2012

Making Nesting Boxes from Salvaged Materials

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Salvaged materials had been collecting over the years in a stockpile on our small farm. Friends visiting the farm would look at the colle...
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Saturday, November 26, 2011

Pullet Eggs!!! Months too soon!

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If there's a time to every purpose under Heaven, then WHOA! The time has come to make nest boxes for the little ladies, the Speckled S...
Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Pauley's Pampered Poultry: Pekin Ducks

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Here are the ducks in their wading pool. Once they get into the water, the ducks seem to swim in unison, clockwise, for a couple of minute...
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Saturday, July 2, 2011

The Water Hydrant

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An ancient dug well has been our water supply for the pampered poultry. After the ducks discovered their wading pools, packing water bec...
Monday, June 6, 2011

Hoop Coop

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Chris completed his 10' X 20' Hoop Coop (that's what he's calling it) just in time for the ducklings' 3-week birthday....
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Monday, May 30, 2011

The Chicken Condo, in Progress

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Measuring 18' X 36', this unit is big enough to house a small family. Instead, it will be a four-room building for housing different...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Good Day for Ducks!

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The weather, being what it is, will likely do what she wants to do. Is it a good day for ducks? I asked Chris. His fact du jour was that the...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Lucky Duckies

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The post office called at 7 a.m. to let us know our ducklings had arrived, so Chris scrambled out of the house to  pick them up and get them...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Getting Our Ducks in a Row

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Chris loves a good challenge and homesteading provides several opportunities to stretch one's physical boundaries as well as knowledge b...