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All the chickies are here now. Yay! And now, we’re getting 14 eggs every day. We plan on selling them, but in the meantime, until we get set up properly to do that, we need to find ways to use them up. Mind you, eggs will keep for a very long time, so there’s no [...]
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Today is Thanksgiving in Canada. A day to reflect on our lives and thank the Lord for all that He has blessed us with. So, I thought I would just post my list of gratitudes and encourage those that visit today to do the same.
Of course I have to start with my wonderful new Homestead. [...]
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Well, you could just poke me with a stick, I’m so excited!
We have 8 more hens coming next Friday. More brown hens, just like what we have now. Plus, I was talking to our good friend yesterday and she is possibly getting 25 more hens for only $2.00 each and we’re going to split them [...]
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His name is Jack and he thinks he’s a movie star. He’s still young, only about 6 months or so but boy oh boy does he have the strut down pat!
He’s already “made friends” with all of our ladies. Well, all except one. Gertie doesn’t seem to be the least bit interested in him. She’s [...]
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We picked them up on Wednesday. I’m so excited!
So far we have 6 brown hens. And they’ve already started giving us eggs! Actually, the first egg was laid an hour after they got here which was really exciting.
We’ll be getting more sometime this month. We have 8 more hens and a rooster coming [...]
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