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Red’s Last Chapter

Posted on March 12, 2016 by bluestempond

I hope this is the happy ending of Red’s story of woe. This week, I began a campaign to reintegrate her back into the flock. First, I gave her a couple sessions of free-ranging alongside the chicken run to see … Continue reading →

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Plan B is Working!

Posted on February 21, 2016 by bluestempond

It has been about a week since, in desperation, I pulled the little red hen out of the hell hole where her sisters wanted to tear her limb from limb and I put her into her own little pen in the … Continue reading →

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Plan B for “Red”

Posted on February 15, 2016 by bluestempond

The evening after I posted my new plan for Red, out in the fenced garden to protect her from the bullying behavior of her sisters, we got a heavy, wet snow. I did not have the heart to leave her … Continue reading →

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Chicken’s Emerging Personality

Posted on April 21, 2014 by bluestempond

Two weeks living with chickens, and they are beginning to exhibit some entertaining personalities.  As babies, they would peep continuously but with their beaks closed so I could not tell who was saying what.  Now, the larger ones have begun … Continue reading →

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