Old Hen, New Chicks: A Middle-Aged Chicken’s Foray Into Motherhood
I had my first flock – free-ranging Dorkings, Welsummers and Easter Egger hens -for a couple of years. Only oneContinue Reading
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Tips To Increase Viability Of Hatching Eggs
There are a few ways you can get chicks: buy them, let a broody hen hatch them or use anContinue Reading
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Assisted Hatch #4: To Intervene Or Not?
I’ve had 66 hatches with broody hens over the last decade. Most have gone according to plan, some with sadContinue Reading
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Hatching Egg Fails 2
Double Trouble
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Robbing Peter To Pay Paul
The Tale Of Five Broody Hens
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School Incubator Hatching
The practice of hatching chicks or ducklings in elementary school classrooms is a long tradition. I remember it from whenContinue Reading
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Broody Hens: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
When Things Don’t Go As Planned
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National Egg Day
A Retrospective Look At My Year In Eggs
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A Week Of Highs & Lows
May started out with a week full of some highs, but mostly lows at Bitchin’ Chickens. A mink got intoContinue Reading
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Snappy Hatching Egg Ads: Mother’s Day
I offset some of my costs of keeping chickens by selling eating eggs, hatching eggs, chicks and occasionally pullets. ThereContinue Reading
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