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free range eggs

Weekly Roundup – Woodland Home, Eggs and Grains

December 10, 2010 by Darren

Interesting reading from the past fortnight: a low impact woodland home, the true meaning of “free range” eggs, baked eggs in bread rolls, preventing fruit fly, growing grains in your backyard, and Dirt Girl World for the kids.

Posted in: Weekly Roundup Tagged: children, free range eggs, fruit fly, grain, recipe

Playing With Their Food

March 23, 2010 by Darren

I was telling some friends at work about our new chicks, and when I mentioned that we were growing them out for meat they asked if our girls – aged 4, 6 and 8 – knew. To be honest, we’ve been upfront with them since before the chicks hatched. We’ve been clear all along that … [Read more…]

Posted in: Keeping Animals Tagged: backyard chickens, brahma, chickens, chicks, children, free range eggs, ISA brown, meat chickens, rooster

Dinner From The Backyard

December 12, 2008 by Darren

We had a great dinner tonight, with almost all of it coming from the backyard! Megan made an awesome baked pumpkin quiche (store-bought pumpkin, and 4 eggs from Molly). The egg yolks made the quiche really yellow, much more than store-bought free range eggs do. The only down side is that now we’ve got none … [Read more…]

Posted in: Growing Food Tagged: baked pumpkin, beetroot, bok choy, broccoli, free range eggs, ginger beer, kale, potato plants, potatoes, purple carrots, raw beans, sugar snap peas, vegies

First Egg!

December 8, 2008 by Darren

I’ve long watched [other chicken-bloggers report their first eggs](http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=%22first+egg%22&btnG=Search+Blogs), and now it’s finally my turn! When I came home from work today, I went out into the backyard to have a look at the garden and the chickens, as I normally do. On a whim, I opened up the door to the roost to check … [Read more…]

Posted in: Keeping Animals Tagged: backyard chickens, chickens, chooks, egg yolk, eggs, free range eggs, leghorn, silkies

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