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We’ve started collecting green eggs from our new Easter Egger hens! Our first egg was found on Good Friday, the second on Easter, and we’ve had about 5 more since. My best guess is that Alma ...

https://vuchickens.wordpress.com/2016/04/06/green-eggs-and-music/

On New Year’s Eve, we had to say goodbye to our sweet hen, Alberta. She started having trouble with one of her legs 2 weeks earlier which degenerated into full lower body paralysis, and even af...

https://vuchickens.wordpress.com/2016/01/09/new-year-new-chickens/

It looks even better than it did before! So amazing! Too bad our teeth don’t grow back like this.   

https://vuchickens.wordpress.com/2015/09/25/beautiful-beak/

Well, I managed to break Frances of her broodiness. It only took a week of locking her out of the coop during the day… especially the last 2 days, which reached almost 100 degrees. And I did d...

https://vuchickens.wordpress.com/2015/08/16/broken-broodiness-broken-beak/

Just when I thought we had settled into a comfortable backyard chicken life, my dear sweet wonderful most troublesome hen ever, Frances, has decided to go broody. And when I say broody, I mean it...

https://vuchickens.wordpress.com/2015/07/25/imaginary-eggs/

I knew it was only a matter of time before I succumbed to yet another fiber art adventure. Mae and I bought a Zoom Loom today to give it a go. We both found it fun, quick and easy… And sure to ...

https://vuchickens.wordpress.com/2015/04/19/weaving-wonderment/

Our hen, Gloria, passed away this weekend. I have no idea what happened. On Friday she seemed just fine… she looked healthy and even laid a normal egg. But on Saturday morning I found her dead ...

https://vuchickens.wordpress.com/2015/04/07/goodbye-gloria/

Our little jailbirds were doing just fine with their parole until a few of weeks ago, when I came home to find them completely absent from the backyard. Naturally, I started panicking, and scour...

https://vuchickens.wordpress.com/2015/03/27/halfway-house-hens/

Well… I “chickened” out on the electric fence idea for our current inmates. I was all set to install a fido-shock wire around the coop and part of the yard, but when I went out to implement...

https://vuchickens.wordpress.com/2015/02/03/jailbirds-on-parole/

We celebrated our final Christmas last weekend, and I’m happy to report that, despite my kids and I being wiped out with the Flu this month, I was able to complete my knitting project presents...

https://vuchickens.wordpress.com/2015/01/29/christmas-part-three-the-finale/