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Beaten Biscuits: Sound of the South
Wikimedia image of beaten biscuits Are they a holdover of slave days, something that no one in their right mind would voluntarily make? Are they a delicacy well worth every stroke of beating that goes into them? Dedicated cooks … Continue reading
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Hello readers of Chicken Lady at Locust Lane
This is the author of this blog, Teri White Carns. I also have roadtripteri, and Wheatavore blogs. I’m going to be adding a couple of hundred posts (from a different platform) to the basic blogs (roadtripteri and Chicken Lady) over … Continue reading
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The grass is not really greener
Chickens in the grass — these Alaskans also get the sort of feed that Chicken Lady recommends for fat and egg-full hens. Dear Chicken Lady, I’ve been getting grass fed beef from a friend and it is wonderful. In our local … Continue reading
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Tagged bugs, Chicken Lady, chicken lawn house, grass, grass-fed, Locust Lane, Rural King
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Chicken Lady answers: Bath time for birds
Dear Chicken Lady, Why are my chickens getting in their feed bowls and knocking all the feed out? It’s really annoying and a waste of feed. Don’t they mind that they are making such a mess? Sincerely, Distressed that they Messed … Continue reading
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Tagged baths, bugs, Chicken Lady, chickens, diatomaceous earth, ducks, dust baths, feed, geese, grackles, mud, snow, winter
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Beautiful winter at Locust Lane
Chicken Lady has been capturing the essence of a winter day at Locust Lane with the geese and the trees. Geese. Trees. Geese. Trees + Geese.
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Windows for Chickens
Chicken Lady Dear Chicken Lady, So we’re building a chicken coop and have some old windows we want to use in it. Will they be safe to use or will the chickens crash into them and break them, leaving sharp slivers … Continue reading
Running around in circles — it works for birds
Laughter relieves stress and so each night when I went out to close up the birds for protection from the nightly predators I had plenty of stress relief at the duck pen where all the young ducks were. Usually we … Continue reading
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Tagged Chicken Lady, ducks, flocking, geese, Locust Lane, Romans group soul, running around in circles, starlings
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Chickens at the Alaska State Fair
Eggs hatching at Alaska State Fair, August 27, 2011 When you think “Alaska State Fair,” chickens aren’t the first creatures coming to mind. Yaks, maybe (there was one). Llamas, goats, dairy cows, sheep. And everyone knows that Alaska grows some … Continue reading
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Tagged Alaska State Fair, chickens, giant cabbages, hatching eggs, toothed fungi
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Herding chickens and birthdays
Birthdays are about as easy to control as a herd of chickens. They happen, like it or not, just as chickens happen to move however they wish, with no regards for your desire to move them in a calm orderly … Continue reading
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Tagged birthdays, Chicken Lady, controlling birthdays, herding chickens, recalcitrant fowl
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Internet Chicken Fixes
For those of us who don’t own chickens (Chicken Lady’s sister who is making this post) but greatly admire them, the Internet is the next best thing to having half a dozen or half a hundred happy hens in the … Continue reading
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Tagged chicken companions, chicken coops, chickens as pets, Google Alerts, urban chickens
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