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    Just curious who else is living super frugal

    With three children ages 3 - 16, making our own bread saves on the grocery bill. For daily bread, I use an easy artisan bread recipe I found in Mother Earth News; it requires no kneading. Driving our vehicles long past paying them off is another money saving strategy. We splurged on our home...
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    Chicks and Dogs

    Our chicks are still in a brooder in the house, but our coop is being delivered next week. For the most part, I had planned to keep them in a penned in area attached to the coop, but the more I read about the benefits of having them in the yard, the more intrigued I am. My trouble is that I...
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    Massachusetts anyone?

    Eastern Maine here... when can I put the chickens in their own coop rather than my cellar? It's still very cold, but they are getting awfully big!
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    Re-purposed material - a lesson in recycling.

    I think my baby dinos must be roughly the age of yours, as I'm living in fear of the nine of them making a big escape!!! They've been moved from their small brooder condo (two medium cardboard boxes taped together with plastic page protectors taped over openings for windows) to their warehouse...
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    [LIST - Over 1,000 names!] Chicken names!

    My children can't tell our chicks apart, except by breed. So, all three Buff Orpintons are called Bibby; the two Partridge Rocks are Cookie and Brownie; the Golden Lace Wyandottes are Quiche and Omelette; the Black Giant is Benedict, and our Black Cochin is Larold. Other than Larold, the kids...
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    March Hatch A Long... anyone with me??

    My step-daughter just picked up an incubator for me from the local university. I'm going to try hatching eggs in my high school classroom. The plan is that they will come home with me. I have someone gathering potentially fertile eggs for me, a combination of Plymouth Bard Rocks and Cochins...
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