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Chicken Cannibalism!

Mr. Homegrown
Animals, Chickens
9 Comments
We caught our Rhode Island Red pecking at the base of our AraucanaR17;s tail this weekend. Fortunately we stopped this act of cannibalism before it got past a small wound and a few missing feathers and weR17;ve been able to isolate the victim from the perp until she recovers. Cannibalism is common amongst chickens and there are a number of theories as to why it happens including dietary inadequacies, genetics and simple chicken boredom. Th...

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Sunday Spam: Automatic Chicken Cage

Mr. Homegrown
Animals, Chickens, Picture Sundays, Thoughtstylings
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We interrupt the usual picture Sunday feature to bring you the best and most misdirected spam email that has ever graced the Root Simple in-box: Dear Sir or Madam, Liaocheng Dongying Hengtong Metal Manufacturing Co.,Ltd here. Glad to hear that you are on the market for Automatic chicken cage. We are a professional producer of the complete sets of equipment for raising birds. At present, it is an enterprise which has the import-export license an...

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Help Us Find the Ideal Urban Chicken Breed

Mrs. Homegrown
Animals, Chickens
40 Comments
Townes Van Zandt with chicken We are in the market for new hens and lately it has occurred to us that the best breed criteria for our situation is not a breed which lays most frequently, but a breed which maintains its egg production as it matures–even if that means that it doesnR17;t produce as many eggs per week as a typical high production hen. Does that make sense? Because Erik is such a soft touch, we have to maintain a nu...

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Saturday Linkages: Ginger Grating, Food Poisoning and Williams-Sonoma Chicken Coops

Mr. Homegrown
Saturday Linkages
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Williams-SonomaR17;s “Alexandria” Coop. Quick Tip: Grate Ginger with a Fork http://www.thekitchn.com/quick-tip-grate-ginger-with-a-fork-168905 How long does food poisoning last?: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/05/how-long-does-food-poisoning-l.html La Creuset chicken feeders, perhaps? Williams-Sonoma High-End DIY Line A timeline of American food trends: http://www.foodtimeline.org/fooddecades.html These, and more linka...

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A Review of Williams-Sonoma’s Agrarian Line

Mr. Homegrown
Thoughtstylings
20 Comments
Last week upscale retalier Williams-Sonoma announced an urban homesteady line of goods they call “Agrarian”. A number of Root Simple readers responded to the news after I linked to a Wall Street Journal article about the Agrarian line. One reader likened the “Agrarian” items to Marie AntoinetteR17;s 18th century cosplay mini-farm. Another hoped that mainstream acceptance of things like chicken coops and beehives might...

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The Making of a Great Olive Oil

Mr. Homegrown
Food
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...e At the end of all this machinery the oil pours out of a spigot and into a steel drum: We all had the great privilege of tasting the freshly squeezed oil. I wonR17;t soon forget that heavenly flavor. Matt told us that it takes around a ton of olives to make 25 to 30 gallons of oil. The olives come from a thousand trees that are tucked around the vineyards. If youR17;re ever in Northern California the Preston Vineyard is well worth a v...

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Making It e-Book Corrected

Mr. Homegrown
Thoughtstylings
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To those of you who purchased an e-version of our book Making It and had trouble reading it, I just received a note from our publisher Rodale: The “disappearing words” are actually words that appear in a faint gray color that was hard or impossible to see over light background color settings on some devices, especially the Kindle from Amazon. We have corrected the e-book files and re-released them to all retailers. The corrected vers...

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2011 in Review: The Garden

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
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ItR17;s was a difficult year in the garden. A lead and zinc issue screwed up my winter vegetables garden plans. At least we managed to find some river rocks and put in a path. I found this photo from December 2010. I was certainly a lot more organized that year. For 2012, IR17;m putting in raised beds to deal with the heavy metal issue and weR17;ve already planted more native plants. But most importantly one of my New Years resolution...

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