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Chicken Chronicles

Half a dozen chicks

from the wife:  My first week as chick mommy

Chicks at the beginning of week 2

Chicks, week 3

Chicks, week 4

Chicks are on the stead!

Chick sitting funny:  Mareks?

Thoughts from the wife on chickens

The foster chicken (by the wife)

Chickens and geese (by the wife)

Chickens are laying

From the wife:  #4

Local prices for chickens, turkeys and eggs

Testing the chick brooder

Chickens are pest control

Chicks by USPS

From the wife:  Baby chicks

Piglets, antibiotics, vaccinations…

Raising chicks commercially:  lessons so far

Chicks and dingle-berries…on their feet

Our first babies born on the farm

Dogs killing my chickens

Measuring chicken growth

From the wife:  More new chicks

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