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I’ve not only had a lot of fun in 2013 raising my crazy chickens, but I’ve loved seeing all your Mavis Mail chicken coop submissions. I have some of the most creative readers on the planet! Check out a recap of the very best chicken related posts of 2013: My Chickens: How to Maintain a Read More >>
Thanks to One Hundred Dollars a Month reader, Karen, for sending me this article featured on the Huffington Post earlier this month. The article describes the plight of one family to keep their backyard chickens, which they originally acquired when their autistic son’s pediatrician recommended they get a pet to help with social skills. The Read More >>
This morning when Lucy the Puggle Dog and I went outside to fed the chickens, we discovered the whole backyard was covered in frost. Lucy loved licking the frost off the garden boxes and barking at the grass. 😉 What a nut! It was so chilly outside I decided to make the chickens some warm Read More >>
First of all, do chickens have ankles? Friday night when The Girl Who Thinks She’s a Bird was locking the chickens up in the coop, she noticed Java the Hut’s leg was caught in one of the nesting grates inside our coop. Not only she flopped over on her side but her leg swollen and Read More >>
How to add chickens into your existing flock – Our baby chicks turned 8 weeks old recently and since the weather is starting to get a little cooler and the daylight hours shorter, we decided it was time to introduce the new chickens into our existing flock. I’ve had people tell me introducing new chickens Read More >>
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