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When Food Is Cute

July 11, 2012 in Chickens, Just Talking, Poultry, Raising Livestock, Self Sufficiency by Cathy

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Okay how can I EAT these little cute fluff balls of love? This year’s meat birds arrived and I wasn’t expecting them to be quite so adorable!!  Thank goodness they will turn into ugly blobby beasts because I wouldn’t be able to go through with “it” otherwise. Last year we decided to grow heritage birds [...]

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Chickens, Ducks and Dog – video

February 7, 2012 in Cathy's Videos, Chickens, Chickens and Duck Videos, Ducks, Farm and Garden Videos, Just Talking, Poultry, Raising Livestock, Self Sufficiency, slide show self sufficient, slide show videos, Videos by Cathy

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Here is a typical morning at Heritage Hollow! I show you some of my duck and chicken breeds and the different coloured eggs they lay…including green!

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Killing Meat Birds

January 7, 2012 in Chickens, Just Talking, Poultry, Raising Livestock, Self Sufficiency, slide show self sufficient by Cathy

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Okay so here’s the deal… This year we slaughtered our meatbirds ourselves. I was a little nervous I must say.  I had meatbirds when I was a wee lass growing up on my parents hobby farm back in the 70′s (am I showing my age?..eek). If you lived in the country back then you probably [...]