chickens Archives | Official Site for Heather Justesen and Heather Tullis https://heathersnotes.com/category/chickens/ Mystery to Make Your Heart Race | Romance to Make You Sigh Thu, 27 Apr 2023 17:32:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://heathersnotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/cropped-book-icon-32x32.png chickens Archives | Official Site for Heather Justesen and Heather Tullis https://heathersnotes.com/category/chickens/ 32 32 New baby chicks! https://heathersnotes.com/2011/07/new-baby-chicks/ Sat, 09 Jul 2011 03:55:00 +0000 https://heathersnotes.com/new-baby-chicks/ The past couple of years I hatched baby chicks from February until Halloween or Thanksgiving–there are few things as fun as going to my incubator and finding new babies. This year I’ve been running like crazy and haven’t even cleaned out my incubators, so I’ve been going into withdrawals without the little chirps and whistles […]

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]]> I love spring! https://heathersnotes.com/2011/03/i-love-spring/ https://heathersnotes.com/2011/03/i-love-spring/#comments Fri, 25 Mar 2011 03:08:00 +0000 https://heathersnotes.com/i-love-spring/ Last week my chickens *finally* started laying again, as did one of my geese, and I got my first duck egg today. I have daffodils and crocuses blooming in my yard (I could swear crocuses are supposed to come first, aren’t they?) and I planted seeds for my garden the other day. Spring is in […]

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]]> https://heathersnotes.com/2011/03/i-love-spring/feed/ 1 New baby birds in the barn yard https://heathersnotes.com/2010/06/new-baby-birds-in-barn-yard/ https://heathersnotes.com/2010/06/new-baby-birds-in-barn-yard/#comments Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:10:00 +0000 https://heathersnotes.com/new-baby-birds-in-barn-yard/ Tonight I got a fun surprise when I went out to collect eggs and check on my birds. First I came across a tiny white chick–which stupid idiot that I am, took me several minutes to realize it was actually a guinea keet. This was totally exciting since I’ve incubated dozens of guinea eggs this […]

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]]> https://heathersnotes.com/2010/06/new-baby-birds-in-barn-yard/feed/ 7 Spring surprises, new hatches, and other life adventures https://heathersnotes.com/2010/03/spring-surprises-new-hatches-and-other/ https://heathersnotes.com/2010/03/spring-surprises-new-hatches-and-other/#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:19:00 +0000 https://heathersnotes.com/spring-surprises-new-hatches-and-other/ It’s been a fun and eventful week (though not in the realm of writing or editing). Since a picture is supposed to be worth a thousand words, I thought I’d let them do most of the speaking for this blog post: My first turkey eggs! I didn’t know they were tear-drop shaped, but since they […]

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]]> https://heathersnotes.com/2010/03/spring-surprises-new-hatches-and-other/feed/ 5 How to make an A-frame chicken coop https://heathersnotes.com/2009/06/how-to-make-a-frame-chicken-coop/ https://heathersnotes.com/2009/06/how-to-make-a-frame-chicken-coop/#comments Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:18:00 +0000 https://heathersnotes.com/how-to-make-a-frame-chicken-coop/ This spring I knew I needed another coop. I was on a budget, and since I didn’t want the project to take all year, I needed it to be something I could build completely on my own–I had a deadline and intended to stick to it. I also knew it needed to be tall enough […]

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]]> https://heathersnotes.com/2009/06/how-to-make-a-frame-chicken-coop/feed/ 9 Twice as Tastey! https://heathersnotes.com/2009/05/twice-as-tastey/ https://heathersnotes.com/2009/05/twice-as-tastey/#comments Sat, 16 May 2009 19:23:00 +0000 https://heathersnotes.com/twice-as-tastey/ Just a quick note, I had to share. One of my hens laid the FIRST double yolker I’ve ever gotten. It was this huge green egg, about double the size of the others, so I knew it had to be, and I was right. It was a small joy–but I’ll take what I can get. […]

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]]> https://heathersnotes.com/2009/05/twice-as-tastey/feed/ 2 The Sweet Sound of Bird Song https://heathersnotes.com/2009/03/sweet-sound-og-bird-song/ Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:47:00 +0000 https://heathersnotes.com/sweet-sound-og-bird-song/ There’s nothing quite like waking up at three in the morning to the sound of birds trilling. That is, unless the “trilling” sounds more like a rooster crow, or geese and ducks that have been excited by the passing of a deer or coyote in the dark. Don’t misunderstand me. I placed the birds far […]

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]]> Tagged again https://heathersnotes.com/2009/01/tagged-again-by-tristi-pinkston/ https://heathersnotes.com/2009/01/tagged-again-by-tristi-pinkston/#comments Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:29:00 +0000 https://heathersnotes.com/tagged-again/ Tristi Pinkston tagged me on her blog. Apparently you’re suppose to post the 6th photo in your 6th folder. Since my laptop was recently resurrected, I don’t have many pictures on here yet, but this is what I came up with. He’s one of my frizzled Cochin roosters. I took this pic because I have […]

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]]> https://heathersnotes.com/2009/01/tagged-again-by-tristi-pinkston/feed/ 2 Solo the chick, one week later https://heathersnotes.com/2008/09/solo-chick-one-week-later/ https://heathersnotes.com/2008/09/solo-chick-one-week-later/#comments Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:30:00 +0000 https://heathersnotes.com/solo-chick-one-week-later/ So I’m sure no one is as interest in my baby chick as I am, but I couldn’t believe how big he’s grown in one week. The night he was born I took a picture of him on my hand and I swear he was only a third as big. We thought he was going […]

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]]> https://heathersnotes.com/2008/09/solo-chick-one-week-later/feed/ 2 Incubation success..sort of https://heathersnotes.com/2008/09/incubation-successsort-of/ https://heathersnotes.com/2008/09/incubation-successsort-of/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:05:00 +0000 https://heathersnotes.com/incubation-successsort-of/ I didn’t want to tell when I decided to incubate this time because my previous attempt was such a dud, but here’s what happened. Well, I did succeed in hatching out one chick last week, so it is a success, even if I put 34 eggs in the incubator to start out with. I ordered […]

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