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Watching chickens grow

  • August 17, 2014
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  • Rory
If it looks like our broiler chickens are doubling in size every week, that’s because they are. We received the box of chickens in the mail just one short month ago.…
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Building a mobile chicken coop, step-by-step

  • August 9, 2014
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Chickens do two things with stunning regularity: eat and poop. The idea of a mobile chicken coop, or “chicken tractor” as it is sometimes called, is to keep the chickens…
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Baby chickens arrive

  • August 1, 2014
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The newest additions to the Grovestead arrived in the mail two weeks ago. We ordered thirty “broiler” chickens, as they’re called, because we are raising them for meat rather than…
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FSA: Family Supported Agriculture

  • July 6, 2014
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Our recent conversations about what to do next have centered on livestock. Goats, pigs, cows, sheep. We haven’t talked about llamas yet, but nothing has been ruled out. Livestock is…
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