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Backyard Chickens,Behavior,Chickens

Now We Can Debunk All Those Misconceptions We Have Heard !

Posted on February 16, 2013

by Liz Hessen of For the Love of Chicken Poop We took on our flock of backyard chickens for humane reasons. We knew ours would be well cared for and in return give us healthy eggs. Because all the researching, reading, asking, talking and looking, starts way before you get chicks (or should) it has […]

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Behavior,Chickens

5 Signs That Fall Has Arrived at our Farm

Posted on September 23, 2012

By Lisa Steele We know it’s fall by looking at the calendar, but here in southeastern Virginia it can go either way. Sometimes the heat of summer continues well into October, while other years it’s like Mother Nature flipped a switch and we are dragging out our heavy sweaters and turning on the heat just […]

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