Serenity Acres Now

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  • New Brooder Pen

    New Brooder Pen

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    Nerdbilly

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    Our special project this weekend was building a new pen for our Black Australorp chicks, who had outgrown the brooder cage. We’ve had it inside of the large coop, but on “our” side, where we store all of their food and supplies. We moved it outside while we did our construction work. They were able…

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  • My Buddy Hen

    My Buddy Hen

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    Nerdbilly

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    One of the chicks from our original group back in January took a quick liking to me. She was one of the six Buff Orpingtons, and she would very quickly jump up on my arm or hand and hang out there. It didn’t matter if I had food in my hand, even. She was more…

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  • Mystery Chick

    Mystery Chick

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    Nerdbilly

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    We received a free “Fancy/Exotic” chick with our order of Black Australorps from Murray McMurray Hatchery earlier this month. When they first arrived, it was difficult to distinguish them from one another color-wise, but now that they are getting some feathers in, this one is definitely different! McMurray kindly posted it up on their Facebook…

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