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8 Eggs in 9 Days from Our New Brahma Hen

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New Hen Lays 8 Eggs in 9 Days

When a Pullet, a young hen, begins to lay she often misses days and her eggs are usually small and grow larger over time. Our new Brahma mix hen has now laid 8 Eggs in Her first 9 Days of laying! Some Hen! 

New Hen Lays 8 Eggs in 9 Days
Her eggs are getting bigger, and are nearly as big as a Large White Store Bought Egg! You can see by the picture that the eggs are getting bigger too! My guess is she’ll be laying Jumbos before long! 

Preparing for Winter with a Snow Blower

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Our first Snowblower at Briden Farm

When you’re living off grid, or in an isolated area, being properly prepared for Winter can mean the difference between success and failure. Proper preparations mean survival and when you’re in a remote area it can mean survival. 

Now, it’s not like we’re super isolated, but we are a 1/4 mile, or about 400 Meters, up a laneway that is an old Declassified Government Road. So it no longer gets upkeep, or plowing, from the Government. Thus we’re on our own when it come to that! 

We had someone’s lined up to do our plowing, and he has had other obligations come up and won’t be able to do it! So, rather than being beholden to someone else, we’ve bought a used Snowblower and plan to do it ourselves! It should be interesting!