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Chicken Babies
It’s been months since I’ve updated you on my feathered babies, and they’ve grown up right before my eyes! The ladies are now four months old and all of their adult feathers are in. They roam the yard...
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Chicken Triumph
I was driving home last night from Salt Lake with only my thoughts to entertain me. The babies had all fallen asleep and the car was quiet without Thomas to chat with. I had spent the day at my first...
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Places I love: Grandma’s Farm
I shared a few pictures of our trip last week, and wanted to share a few more now. I moved to Utah my sophomore year of collage to attend Brigham Young University. I lived in a small town in southern...
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Eggs Shells for Chickens: Oyster Shell Replacement
Let’s talk chickens. Having backyard chickens has been a ton of fun. They are more like pets than anything, but the best part is they provide eggs in exchange for feeding them. I like having productive...
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Backyard Chickens: All Cooped Up
Chicken update! Do you guys even like to hear about the ladies? I love to talk about them because I love the chickens, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that you all want to hear about them. Really, do...
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The End of an Era
Friends, I don’t even know where to start… I’ve done too much ugly crying today and writing this post seems like the only thing that I can do now. Two-thirds of my beloved chickens are dead. Six of my...
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Birds of a Feather Stick Together
I have a hard time not calling the remaining three chickens “the survivors” after that tragic day the neighbor’s dogs killed six of my hens (Heartbreak and details on that day here). But survivors they...
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Resolution #1
My first resolution for 2013: Stop putting the eggs I collect in my pocket to carry them in the house… The post Resolution #1 appeared first on Bless This Mess.
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Backyard Chickens in the Snow
It’s been a while since I updated you on how the hens are doing. I wasn’t very prepared for winter. Their coop is fine, but it’s not incredibly warm and is a bit drafty. I did some reading about the...
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Popular Farming Chickens Magazine
Remember that one time I was in a Popular Farming Chickens magazine?! Oh, you have no idea what I’m talking about? That’s because the issue just made it onto shelves!! I’ve been sitting on this secret...
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New Chicks
I love me some chickens. Last spring we got our very first bunch of new chicks from the feed store, raised them inside our house (because we were in the middle of remodeling), and then moved them out...
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Growing a Vegetable Garden in Southern Utah
Welcome to the 2013 vegetable garden! This year has been really different for us, so I thought I’d bring you all along for the journey of growing a vegetable garden in Southern Utah. Refresher: We just...
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Raising baby sheep: the cutest animals around
I’m so excited to finally share this post with you! We got baby sheep, aka lambs, last week and they are the cutest little critters you’ve ever laid eyes on. I’d like to introduce you to the newest...
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Not What I Expected
If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook then this isn’t totally new news, but I feel like it deserves a post of its own. Saturday was an awesome day filled with productivity and check marks next to...
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DIY Portable Chicken Run
DIY portable chicken run- Last Saturday was awesomely productive and we got this puppy built, moved to the Shanty, and put all of the hens and chicks together. The chicks had been living in an...
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Quick Pickled Cucumbers – Refrigerator Pickles
Having a huge garden is awesome when the tilling, planting, weeding, watering, weeding, and more weeding start to mean gobs of fresh vegetables for me to use. It seems like such a labor of love for...
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DIY chicken water and feeder from 5-gallon buckets
Not everyone needs a post on a DIY chicken water and feeder from 5-gallon buckets, but someone out there does need it! Is it you? Even if you don’t have your own hens yet this might be something to...
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Can sheep eat sweet peas?
Sheep update: Backstory: If you are new to the blog I introduced the lambs here and then was sad to announced that one died unexpectedly here. After I wrote last week’s post on Freckle’s unexpected...
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Garden 2013
We enjoyed an awesome short vacation in Yellowstone and Idaho this weekend. I went to the garden first yesterday when we got home to check on everything and I just couldn’t believe the difference that...
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Hobby farm update! In late September my beautiful garden froze. We weren’t expecting such an early freeze (a full 3 week earlier than the average frost date for our area) or we would have covered a few...
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