![]() O.K. I'm sure you're wondering where I'm going with this one... I think I can see them growing! It seems as though if I sit with them long enough I can see the yellow fluff being parted by feathers....The hulk chickens are about 13 days old now and are almost triple the size they were, almost. I have had no losses yet-incredible I think. Only about 3 pasty butts, and we are almost at 2 weeks! This is about the time I stop worrying about spontaneous death from chicken S.I.D.S. This years chick raising has been a pleasure with no issues. So in addition to the raising of the chicks on fresh biodynamic compost, next year I'm gonna add worms to the mix and prep the chick brooder with biodynamic compost that is mostly finished AND inhabited with worms. Every day I have gone out and gathered worms for my baby mutant chicks to supply them with the extra protein their obscenely fast growing bodies need and argh, does my back hurt! but if they were unknowingly sitting on their meal, I could come by once a day and turn some compost.... My Evil plot thickens....
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Eva Taylor Born in New Hampshire and raised in Maine, Eva's passion for living self sustainably began with Helen and Scott Nearing. Both were homesteaders who carved their lives from the land. Eva now lives in Eastern West Virginia, with her husband Dain and daughter Shayna, carving out her own life. Archives
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