052 Listener Feedback and So Much More

July 8, 2015

...Fork Radio Podcast’s love letter to toilet augers, listen to a comment on poultry health, debrief on Kelly’s sewing projects and go off on a rant about Erik’s plantar fasciitis problem. During the podcast we mention: The Idler and Tom Hodgkinson’s book How to Be Idle: A Loafer’s Manifesto The band Calexico (you can download a free song and see a concert on their website). Hencam.com Architectural Graphics Standards Barefoot Ken Bob If you want to...

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Your Chicken Questions Answered

Mr. Homegrown

August 12, 2014

Animals, Chickens, Podcasts

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...Image: Hencam.com. I’ll be interviewing poultry expert, author and HenCam.com blogger Terry Golson for the Root Simple Podcast this Thursday morning. If you have any chicken questions you’d like me to ask leave them in the comments for this post....

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2008 . . . a year of luxury

Mr. Homegrown

January 1, 2008

Animals, Chickens

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...ide to preventing and treating chicken diseases and problems. We’re new to poultry and, in just an hour of reading, have learned a lot from this book. It’s a must have for anyone thinking about getting chickens. Thanks to info in the book and our microscope, we’re looking forward to a year of DIY chicken fecal examinations and turning those parasite egg counts into a drinking game. We’ll inaugurate a new year of posts with an entertaining excerpt...

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Everything Must Go Part II: Books

Mr. Homegrown

January 12, 2015

Cleaning, Domesticus, Tidying up

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...at I had gotten rid of The Food Journal of Lewis & Clark that he had gifted to me over the holidays. A lot of the books that I purged can only be described as 90s geek-boy paranoia. If you’d like some of those 90s books plus a few outdated poultry care books, get thee to the Edendale library book sale on Wednesday. That’s assuming our local hipsters haven’t scooped up all my books in a fit of 90s nostalgia. Have you done or are you considering a b...

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Your Thoughts on Treadle Feeders?

Mr. Homegrown

July 3, 2015

Animals, Chickens

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...seases such as virulent forms of salmonella. One of the suggestions at the poultry seminar I attended last week was using treadle feeders. Think of it as a Skinner box for chickens. Chickens walk up to the feeder, step on a treadle, and feed is dispensed. It beats having to wake up at five in the morning to put out food in a conventional feeder. You have to teach your chickens how to use a treadle feeder. One of the veterinarians suggested putting...

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