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Sharing life on our farm, raising chickens for meat and heritage breed layers. Australian Shepherd enthusiast and life long agriculture advocate!

Lifetime Chicken Enthusiasts sharing facts, tips and our experiences with small flock poultry keeping. Offering limited sale of poultry meat, chicken coop construction and renovation services and personalized advice on keeping small flocks for personal use. Laying hen breeding flock expansion to come in 2020. Now a proud member of the Canadian Heritage Breeds Association.

23/11/2022

A couple of shots of the house with it's new siding!
One day I'll have to make an album of all the things we've done to this little farmhouse!

22/03/2022

Happy World Down Syndrome Day, here is a chicky rocking it’s “socks”!

For those who don’t know my youngest daughter Alice has Down Syndrome and we celebrate all that make her extraordinary by wearing funky and mismatched socks on 3/21 for 3 copies of the 21st chromosome and chromosomes look like socks!

18/03/2022

It’s official my new incubator works!
These three Speckled Sussex chicks win the hatching race!

18/11/2021

The new grow-ups have started laying and I am loving all the colours!

08/10/2021

I am so proud of this little egg!
A product of my own specialty cross between a cream legbar rooster and a black copper Marans hen that I am so pumped for!!

19/09/2021

I managed to get one bouquet of sweet peas before the frost hit!
Next year I will definitely be planting earlier and getting pea fences in!

14/05/2021

It might be a small group but I am so happy with the variety in this hatch!

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Finally getting those brown eggs to hatch in my little cheap incubator is so satisfying! 🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣

09/05/2021

Fresh Clean Coops for everyone!!
It was a lot of hard work and many, many wheelbarrow loads but I got all the pens of the mature flock cleaned out!
Also, I have a little trio of Crested Cream Legbars for sale if anyone is interested in adding some blue eggs to their own flock 😊

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