poultry - Stowe Farm Community https://stowefarm.org An Intentional Farm Community located in Colrain, Massachusetts Wed, 10 Aug 2022 20:07:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://stowefarm.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-site-icon.png poultry - Stowe Farm Community https://stowefarm.org 32 32 Checking for eggs https://stowefarm.org/checking-for-eggs/ Mon, 01 Aug 2022 19:58:46 +0000 https://stowefarm.org/?p=7008 Our sweet hens are slowing down, but have provided us with several years of beautiful and delicious eggs. We started incubating eggs today for a future flock.

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]]> Quarantine Goslings https://stowefarm.org/goslings/ Wed, 15 Jul 2020 19:15:21 +0000 https://stowefarm.org/?p=6079 Martha McLure                                                                                                                                                                                                               April, 2020 Back in December at a cookie making party, Haynes told me about his newly formed 4-H club. I asked if he was interested in incubating any eggs with the kids.  Last year my Sebastapol goose, Nosey, hatched fertile eggs, but she did not know... [Read More]

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]]> Geese, chickens, and goats https://stowefarm.org/geese-chickens-and-goats/ Wed, 01 Jul 2020 16:44:45 +0000 https://stowefarm.org/?p=6147 Geese are checking out the chickens and goats on a July afternoon.

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]]> New chicks https://stowefarm.org/new-chicks/ Tue, 31 Mar 2020 18:02:54 +0000 https://stowefarm.org/?p=5846 It’s been so comforting to hang with the baby chicks over the past two days. They have nothing to worry about except how to eat and drink. They are leghorns, which are the most productive of our layers.

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]]> 7 Stowe Farm eggs today! https://stowefarm.org/7-stowe-farm-eggs-today/ Tue, 10 Mar 2020 23:01:31 +0000 https://stowefarm.org/?p=5676 Four households form the chicken club. Today was Lynn’s day, and she got a full assortment. One of the ladies is still holding out, but we still have enough to feed all of us each week. This is a particularly sweet group. Nobody seems to get picked on.

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]]> Our Wellsummer chicken is laying beautiful deep brown speckled eggs https://stowefarm.org/our-wellsummer-chicken-is-laying-beautiful-deep-brown-speckled-eggs/ Tue, 11 Feb 2020 18:21:53 +0000 https://stowefarm.org/?p=5648 She took her sweet time (and she is sweet), but our Wellsummer is now laying beautiful eggs. The speckles come off if you wash them, same with the blue eggs. Curious!

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]]> Repairing turkey tractor roof https://stowefarm.org/repairing-turkey-tractor-roof/ Mon, 08 Apr 2019 12:16:56 +0000 https://stowefarm.org/?p=5251 Luckily we didn’t have any turkeys or chickens this winter, so nobody was hurt when the powerful winds tore the roof off of our winter home for turkeys and/or chickens. Our new flock of chickens are due any day now. When they’re big enough, they will live in a more portable chicken tractor for the... [Read More]

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]]> Deeply thankful to our pigs and turkeys https://stowefarm.org/deeply-thankful-to-our-pigs-and-turkeys/ Mon, 24 Aug 2015 17:00:59 +0000 http://katywil.com/?p=4566 We did our best to give these incredible animals humane, honorable, and happy lives, and are truly grateful to them. Andrew’s ducks and geese too.

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]]> Chickens arrived, goats are unimpressed https://stowefarm.org/cohousing-goats-chickens/ Tue, 05 May 2015 00:50:18 +0000 http://katywil.com/?p=4152 More pics…

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]]> Baby turkeys https://stowefarm.org/baby-turkeys/ Mon, 04 May 2015 15:15:18 +0000 http://katywil.com/?p=4230 They will soon be upstaged by baby goats and piglets. What a sweet and mellow bunch they are this year.

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