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Tag: chicken eggs

Longer days lead to more eggs

I don’t always wash the eggs but these definitely had to be cleaned.

A little bit more sunlight each day and the chickens start to lay.

I suppose it’s in the natural order of things to take a break from eating eggs every day…

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chicken eggs1 Comment on Longer days lead to more eggsJanuary 24, 2020January 24, 2020 By Martha Mims

Bertha’s Lemon Pound Cake

Bertha was my husband’s mother. Like me, she moved to Greenville with her husband. She was originally from up north, possibly New York City. She was half Cherokee and half descended from African slaves in America, but she never spoke much about her life before coming …

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Bertha, butter, cake, chicken eggsLeave a Comment on Bertha’s Lemon Pound CakeFebruary 16, 2017March 27, 2017 By Martha Mims

Hungry Chicks

I’ve been posting cute chick pics lately but make no mistake about it, I took the leap with incubating eggs for the home grown meat. I’m feeding these hungry chicks now, in order to feed my family this summer. Some of these chicks have less …

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chicken eggs, chickens, chicks, FoodLeave a Comment on Hungry ChicksMay 5, 2016February 22, 2017 By Martha Mims

It’s a New World

I am no longer an incubator virgin. I would say that I had a positive initiation experience.

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brooder, chicken eggs, chickens, incubator, keeping chickensLeave a Comment on It’s a New WorldApril 7, 2016February 22, 2017 By Martha Mims

Early Birds

I always thought that the expression, the early bird catches the worm, meant that if you were prepared and got up early in the morning, you would be rewarded. But now I’m wondering if it first came from the idea that the early bird, the one that breaks free first, would surely get the first worm from its mother…

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chicken eggs, chicken expressions, chickens, incubator, keeping chickensLeave a Comment on Early BirdsApril 5, 2016 By Martha Mims

Eggxiety

Wednesday afternoon is the expected time for them to start pecking their way out of their little worlds into the bigger, badder world waiting for them. I know first hand now what it means to say, ‘don’t count your chickens before they hatch.’

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chicken eggs, chicks, incubator1 Comment on EggxietyApril 4, 2016 By Martha Mims

Candling Inconclusive

After candling my eggs, I can only say that it was awkward, and I feel like I should have left well enough alone.

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chicken eggs, egg candling, egg turner, incubatorLeave a Comment on Candling InconclusiveMarch 24, 2016 By Martha Mims

Incubator Ignorance

I received a free electric candling device with my new incubator. It’s supposed help me determine what’s really going on between me and my eggs. Here’s to hoping that the eggs will reveal their true intentions, and our relationship will remain on good terms.

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chicken eggs, egg turner, incubatorLeave a Comment on Incubator IgnoranceMarch 21, 2016February 22, 2017 By Martha Mims

Today’s the Day

Eight to ten weeks after that we will start eating our own organic chicken meat and I will finally feel like our rooster is earning his keep around here!

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chicken eggs, incubator, organic meat, rooster1 Comment on Today’s the DayMarch 16, 2016 By Martha Mims

Getting to Know my Incubator

Now, at around noon I seem to have attained the ideal conditions for a lasting relationship. So now my plan is to get on more intimate terms with my incubator while collecting the best looking eggs from my hens for the next couple of days.

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chicken eggs, incubatorLeave a Comment on Getting to Know my IncubatorMarch 9, 2016 By Martha Mims

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