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A big THANK YOU to everyone who has sent in their photographs and stories. I hope by sharing other peoples pictures and stories here on One Hundred Dollars a Month we can all have a rock star garden this summer. Keep them coming! ~Mavis Dear Mavis, Hi there! I’ve been following your blog for a few months Read More >>
I’ve not only had a lot of fun in 2013 raising my crazy chickens, but I’ve loved seeing all your Mavis Mail chicken coop submissions. I have some of the most creative readers on the planet! Check out a recap of the very best chicken related posts of 2013: My Chickens: How to Maintain a Read More >>
The Girl Who Thinks She’s a Bird and I sat down last night and placed our chick order with mypetchicken.com. I like ordering from this company because they offer a huge selection and you can order as little as 1 of each variety to build a unique backyard flock. This year we are splitting an Read More >>
Are your chickens trying to fly into your garden and eat all the vegetables you’ve worked so hard to grow? Or maybe, they’re trying to hop fly the fence? Clipping your chickens wings might help with these problems. Clipping the first 10 primary flight feathers will cause a lack of balance needed for flight. Clipping Read More >>
A few weeks ago The Girl and I rushed to the window to see what the chickens were freaking out about. Buff The Wayward Chicken was being attacked… By not 1 but 2 other chickens. This was very strange behavior indeed. Why were our normally well-behaved chickens picking on Buff? Turns out they had pecked Read More >>
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