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Delinquent Mothers

Posted on December 20, 2010

chicks

Life is frantic at the Pickle Farm today. I have a sick kid, a back yard full of mud and holes, Christmas presents half wrapped and chickens in my kitchen. Yes, chickens…. in my kitchen. Two of them. A black one and a white one. And no, they are not waiting to be roasted, they […]

Hello Spring!

Posted on September 27, 2010

spring at the farm

Finally it has stopped raining and starting sunning! It’s amazing what a little sun and a heck of a lot of rain can do. The grass is so green and so lush and so long! The big kids spent a long time just lying in the grass yesterday, soaking up the sunshine and enjoying being […]

The Story of Dash the Rooster.

Posted on March 17, 2010

*** This blog post is about killing and processing our own home grown chicken. There is no graphic images, and I don’t describe the process in detail, but if that is not you thing, that’s ok, I understand, click away now *** In the very early spring of last year Jasmine, our bantam hen, hatched […]

Here Chook Chook Chook…

Posted on March 11, 2010

We have some new residents at the Pickle Farm. Two weekends back I took a deep breath and did a brave thing. I bought four young hens from the farmers market. It might not sound like a very brave thing but since we’ve been loosing chooks to the dreaded chicken plague (aka mereks disease), slowly, […]

One Chick Wonder.

Posted on January 19, 2010

That cute little bundle of fluff is ‘Dot’, so named by the girls to match up with his/her older sister, Dash. She hatched about a week ago and is being clucked over by her doting surrogate mother, Jasmine, our little Wyandotte Bantam. This is the second hatchling for Jasmine (Dash was her first). Neither of […]

Wordless Wednesday – The Newest Pickle!

Posted on September 30, 2009

Meet the newest member of the Pickle Farm Family! She/he hatched two days ago and was out and about with his/her mum for the first time today. It seems we are only ever able to hatch one chick at a time, and we don’t have a good track record for chicks with the last one […]

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