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		<title>Chick 101 Workshop: March 22, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another spring, another workshop! This year I&#8217;m partnering with the Columbia Career Center to provide you with an even better experience. Sign up here. I&#8217;m planning on bringing my Black Silkie, Jellybean and/or my Mille Fluer Old English bantam, Georgia with me. It just depends on who is broody or has a brood on that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marystilwell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8468074&amp;post=560&amp;subd=marystilwell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mary&#8217;s Whole Grain Chicken Feed Recipe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t written in awhile. I&#8217;ve been meaning to tell you about my solution to the feed problem, but it&#8217;s just that time of year. Harvest season is a busy time of year whether or not you have a garden to harvest. I wrote a couple posts about this already, so you may or may not be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marystilwell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8468074&amp;post=552&amp;subd=marystilwell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Organic Layer Feed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 15:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote an earlier post about our local feed store, Bourn, starting to carry organic feed. I was very excited to be able to buy feed in a paper bag again, much more excited than to be able to buy organic feed with the same ingredient list as the non-organic. The only other choices we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marystilwell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8468074&amp;post=548&amp;subd=marystilwell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marans Hatch Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 14:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Stilwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A day in pictures What a fine day this has turned out to be!! Update: Two more have hatched! The last egg hasn&#8217;t pipped yet.  At this point, I&#8217;m not expecting it to. However, it is still viable as we haven&#8217;t reached the end of Day 21 yet. So anything can happen.  I may candle it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marystilwell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8468074&amp;post=499&amp;subd=marystilwell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Candling My Marans Eggs</title>
		<link>http://marystilwell.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/maran-egg-candling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 02:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week on Thursday, Day 10, I candled the Marans eggs with my neighbors. We were able to see veins and the shadows of the embryos in 6 out of 7 of the eggs. The 7th egg was completely clear, my belief is that it was not fertile. Tonight, Tuesday, Day 15, I candled again. This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marystilwell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8468074&amp;post=478&amp;subd=marystilwell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marans Eggs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 01:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Stilwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend I asked a country friend if she had any fertile eggs I could buy/trade off of her. Her reply was positive, but she also mentioned she had a country friend who had some Marans, Wheaten and Black Copper, and maybe he had some fertile eggs he&#8217;d be willing to barter for. So [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marystilwell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8468074&amp;post=469&amp;subd=marystilwell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lice Treatment</title>
		<link>http://marystilwell.wordpress.com/2011/08/14/lice-treatment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 17:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, my hen Crooked Toe went broody and then my Orpingtons began to molt. Egg production dropped down to one egg a day for about five days, then it stopped altogether. This last Friday it occurred to me that I hadn&#8217;t checked my hens for parasites since before the egg production problems [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marystilwell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8468074&amp;post=463&amp;subd=marystilwell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Processing Day 2011</title>
		<link>http://marystilwell.wordpress.com/2011/08/07/processing-day-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 22:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Stilwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We began processing the 7 Cornish Cross with 4 people at 7:30 am. Processing was quite a bit messier than I had planned for in my head.  Next time I want to have a kill cone set up over the compost pile so that the heads and blood can go straight into it and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marystilwell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8468074&amp;post=458&amp;subd=marystilwell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Predator Alert</title>
		<link>http://marystilwell.wordpress.com/2011/08/03/predator-alert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Stilwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late last week I heard about a chicken owner, two blocks away, who lost an 11 week old chick to an unknown predator. My thoughts were hawk or, less likely, dog. Not a possum, raccoon, or weasel as the rest of the flock was unharmed and there was no carcass left behind. This morning I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marystilwell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8468074&amp;post=453&amp;subd=marystilwell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Week 6 &amp; 7 Weigh In for Cornish Cross</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Stilwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s still really hot here in the midwest. My neighbors and I have decided that next year we will get meat chicks in Aug so that they will have plenty of heat when they need it and it will begin to cool off as they grow. I was busy last week and didn&#8217;t get the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marystilwell.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8468074&amp;post=449&amp;subd=marystilwell&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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