The C Word

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-Fluffy butt egg givers. 🐓

The C Word journals my suburban adventure in backyard chicken keeping, starting as an absolute newbie to who knows where.

Project Chicken Coop officially began on April 18, 2020.

 
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It was the best of times...

I know it has been a minute since I last posted about the chickens. To be honest, things were going just fine in the backyard, but I just didn’t have the desire to write. In the months since my last post…

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It's been three months...
It's been three months...

I’m sorry, I’m terrible. I haven’t updated you in 3 months. For a while there, I was just waiting for things to start taking off with the egg production, and then a couple weekends ago…

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Jumpy Chicken Treats
Jumpy Chicken Treats

It’s been a month since we added 5 hens to our flock and although there hasn’t been a whole lot of news, there is stuff to catch you up on. If you follow me on Facebook…

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IMG_4633.jpeg
It was the best of times...

I know it has been a minute since I last posted about the chickens. To be honest, things were going just fine in the backyard, but I just didn’t have the desire to write. In the months since my last post…

Read more →
It's been three months...
It's been three months...

I’m sorry, I’m terrible. I haven’t updated you in 3 months. For a while there, I was just waiting for things to start taking off with the egg production, and then a couple weekends ago…

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Jumpy Chicken Treats
Jumpy Chicken Treats

It’s been a month since we added 5 hens to our flock and although there hasn’t been a whole lot of news, there is stuff to catch you up on. If you follow me on Facebook…

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And just like that, the flock has doubled!
And just like that, the flock has doubled!

I’ve posted a few ISO’s (In Search Of) on various chicken and farm groups in the past few weeks. I would explain that we were building our coop and looking for some…

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Guess what?
Guess what?

Two months ago we were looking at an overgrown, unused space in our back yard, and then our friend said hey you should get chickens, and despite our attempts to…

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Putting on the pressure
Putting on the pressure

The chicken coop is not yet finished, but construction is still going strong. Slow, but hey, the hubs works Mon-Fri and builds a chicken coop on the weekends…

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Project: Chicken Coop
Project: Chicken Coop

Unlike my adventure in beekeeping, which had been a long-time idea that festered for years, keeping chickens was absolutely not on my radar. At all. If you had asked me…

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Also see The B Word, my Beekeeping blog

 

Disclaimer

I am a new chicken keeper in North Florida. We are started Project Chicken Coop on 4/18 and got our very first chicks on 5/24/20. This is my blog to document my personal journey and although I try my best to be correct, I do not guarantee the accuracy of any information provided here.