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Friday, January 22nd, 2010

I haven’t been able to take new pictures lately because it’s been raining!  Last night the wood pellet bedding swelled up so much that it lifted the roosts!  Poor chickens.  Eglus are fabulous but they aren’t the best in wet weather, they’re too low to the ground.

Commenting:

I have been getting a LOT of spam lately!  I had no idea how sheltered I was on Blogger.  I would love it if any human readers would leave a real, intelligent comment!  However, if you do, please do not put any URLs in the comments!  Not even in the “your website” box.  Thank you!

Great links and failure

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

I tried putting the diaper on Lord Firestar today.  That’s right, tried.  Turns out he’s too big and feathery for the extra small size!  Next I’ll try it on Lady Sandstorm.  Hopefully it’ll work!Here’s a few useful chicken links:Omlet, the art of keeping chickens!Omlet is the company that created the Eglu (yes, that should be enough to tell you that they are great)! They also have a nice forum.With more than 3,000,000 posts, Backyard Chickens is a great place to learn about chickens!My Pet Chicken sells lots of chicken supplies!Well, I guess that’s it for today!

Diapers!

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

That’s right, diapers!  Some relatives got me and Lord Firestar a purple butterfly extra small chicken diaper!  As you may (or may not) know, I really wanted one!  I’ll take pictures of it tomorrow!  Cross your fingers that it will work right!

We gave the Seramas milk today and Lady Sandstorm drank a lot.  Then her head got too low and it all trickled out of her beak.  It was gross.

Oh, and here’s some weight statistics, cross-posted from blogger Plain Old Chickens:

Lady Sandstorm weighs 13.2 ounces.
Chipmunk is 15.6 ounces.
Egglantine is…. 8.6 ounces!

Funny little Eggie.

Tomorrow: 2010!

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Pretty exciting!  We haven’t had a new decade in ten years!  I’m not sure what I’m going to do to celebrate.  Don’t worry, I’ll think up something.

Hello world!

Monday, December 28th, 2009

Launching…Plain Old Chickens at Plain Old Farm!