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Kale became a new favorite of mine. I've been putting it in smoothies and salads. I had never tried kale until last week...now I'm hooked. I already loved and grew my own fresh spinach, but kale might be one for the books around our home!

Yeah, Third Day is one of my favorite bands. Wish we could have stayed, but Grace had to wake up at 5:30am for pre-k so we just didn't want to have her out that long and she was crying and getting cranky and tired. Looks soooo yummy. I've had to radically change my diet since last Monday due...

Spirit Fest was great. We had to leave before Third Day came on because our daughter was getting very tired and cranky. I'm in the Fort Worth area.

Well, yesterday was a long day. My Mom was leaving to go back to Louisiana from visiting us for 4 weeks early that morning. And we let the chickens range while we were all packing up her car and getting ready to go to Church yesterday. Well, we went to go put the girls back up after all of that...

Well, we have our first issue with one of the girls pecking the other girl too hard and causing a lesion on her waddle. What do I put on this to make it not get infected and to hopefully keep the birds from pecking it again? Suggestions? Thanks!

Thank you for this article!

I will try this. I mentioned it to my husband last night and he seems interested. He was going to make a platform or something underneath the feeders, but this will help. Do you make one big bucket of paste or daily? I have a five gallon bucket I empty half the bag of feed into then once...

Well, I already go out there before work, after work to let them free range, then before bed to close their coop after they've settled onto their roosts for the night. I open their feeders between morning and coming home from work then I close them the rest of the night. So it wouldn't be an...

Ok, so I need some help.... We switched from the deep litter method to sand inside the coop. The run was already sand, but it's so hot here in Texas that our girls just did not like the deep litter in their coop. I might go back to that in the winter, but not during the summer. Since we switched...

That is so exciting! Congratulations! A double yolker when she first started laying! Awesome!

I had mine prepared with fake eggs and shavings at about week 15. I don't know what breed you have, but mine are Red Sex-Links which are known to lay early like week 18 - week 24 so I wanted them to see the eggs in the nesting boxes well before they began to lay. So far all 3 that have started...

A great Idea!

I agree with you completely! If they aren't providing they go on the dinner table. I haven't done my own processing, but I saw it when I was a kid because my babysitter owned a farm. I am limited to the amount of chickens I can have legally. I can have up to 20 hens in the city and 1...

That is so very true!

LOL! Believe it or not I had bunnies growing up so I thought about it. It's my husband that is dead set against the idea. :( haha

Well, it's our first time having a flock and since we're not advanced level chicken-keepers, we expected that when we ordered our 15 from McMurray (minimum order) some would die during shipping or something. We didn't know. However, our hens are very healthy. We have read so much on here and...

Yes! I never thought I'd be this excited about getting eggs. My 4 year old and I are giddy with excitement each day when we check for eggs. We were even more giddy to find two additional eggs yesterday. I love having chickens! They're so much fun and they offer wonderful little presents...

I am so excited we have had 1 hen out of 15 laying for 9 days. The other 14 hadn't come along. Then yesterday, we went to check for eggs in one of the two large nesting boxes we have and our one hen who is laying didn't have an egg for us. She's already laying "medium" sized eggs and on her 4th...

I am so excited we have had 1 hen out of 15 laying for 9 days. The other 14 hadn't come along. Then yesterday, we went to check for eggs in one of the two large nesting boxes we have and our one hen who is laying didn't have an egg for us. She's already laying "medium" sized eggs and on her 4th...

I love your coop. It has so much character and charm!