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On the homestead blog: some hummingbirds, ducks, chickens, a jay, and even a cat. Plus some sad news. #FlockFriday 🦆🐓
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Video: I moved one of the cameras in our new chicken coop to above the nesting boxes. Here is a time-lapse of a day in the coop from that vantage point, with a surprise egg bonus. 📹🐓
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On the homestead blog: since this morning’s Flock Friday post didn’t include any chicken pics, I took a bunch, and thought I’d share them in a bonus flock post of scruffy molting chickens. Enjoy! #FlockFriday 🐓
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On the homestead blog: your weekly flock update. Plus, today’s the day: I’m going to let the ducklings into the pond today. Stay tuned for tonight’s duckling post! #FlockFriday 🦆🐓
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Video: a demo of how the coop pop door opener works, and the innovative way I have it mounted on a door so I can access it from inside the coop, and have the cord go straight down from the opener to the pop door. 🚪🐓
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On the homestead blog: a big Flock Friday today, with 33 photos of ducks and chickens, plus a GIF with those and 31 more at the end. I took lots of nice shots of the ducks, so wanted to share them. #FlockFriday 🦆🐓
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On the homestead blog: we’re still at Mom’s place (current thought is maybe heading home tomorrow; continuing to evaluate the smoke). But I still have some chicken and duck pictures for you. #FlockFriday 🦆🐓
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On the homestead blog: today we took a day-trip down to our homestead (three hours each way) to check on and feed the animals, and collect a few things we regretted not bringing north. 🐓🦆
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On the homestead blog: an update on our evacuation from the wildfire, and some flock pics from before we left. #FlockFriday 🦆🐓
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On the homestead blog: time has no meaning at present, but the all-powerful overlord CAL-N-DAR informs me it is Friday… so time for pictures of chickens and adult ducks. #FlockFriday 🦆🐓
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The Micro.blog photo challenge word for day 29 is "flake" (suggested by kurite). After mealworms, the all-time favorite treat of our chickens are flakes of rice. They love strawberries, too, but ignore those till they’ve eaten all the rice. 📷🍓🍚🐓 #mbaug
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The Micro.blog photo challenge word for day 28 is "emotions" (suggested by @dominikhoecht). Caring for animals like pet and feral cats plus ducks and chickens involves a lot of work and emotions, including joy at their cuteness, and eventually sadness. 📷🐈🦆🐓 #mbaug
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On the homestead blog: your weekly flock update. #FlockFriday 🦆🐓
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On the homestead blog for Flock Friday this week, more sad news, I’m afraid. One of the two Rouen ducks went missing on Sunday night. #FlockFriday 🦆🐓
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On the homestead blog: your weekly flock update about the older ducks and chickens. #FlockFriday 🦆🐓
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The Micro.blog photo challenge word for day 10 is "windows" (suggested by @Miraz). Here are views out two of the custom-built chicken coop windows. 📷 #mbaug
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On the homestead blog: welcome to the first Flock Friday with the new ducks. Plus chicken pictures, of course. #FlockFriday 🦆🐓
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On the homestead blog: some sad news this Flock Friday: a raccoon got into one of our chicken coops, and killed two of our chickens. (Don’t worry, there are no graphic pictures in this post.) #FlockFriday 🦆🐓
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Nobody guessed the answer to today’s What’s It Wednesday question. The answer: a ChickenGuard pop door opener on the chicken coop, that lifts and lowers the door the chickens use to go to their run. #WhatsItWednesday
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