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A Day in the Life at Duffney’s Bird Barn
How I balance a remote career, homesteading, crochet, writing, and motherhood—one day at a time. People often ask me how I find time to do everything. Honestly... Some days I wonder the same thing. The weeds don't always get pulled. The laundry doesn't always get folded. The dishes aren't always done when I want them to be. Some crochet projects take longer than I planned, and there are days when my to-do list is still staring back at me when it's time for bed. I've learned that's […]https://duffneysbirdbarn.wordpress.com/2026/07/13/a-day-in-the-life-at-duffneys-bird-barn/
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A Day in the Life at Duffney’s Bird Barn
How I balance a remote career, homesteading, crochet, writing, and motherhood—one day at a time. People often ask me how I find time to do everything. Honestly... Some days I wonder the same thing. The weeds don't always get pulled. The laundry doesn't always get folded. The dishes aren't always done when I want them to be. Some crochet projects take longer than I planned, and there are days when my to-do list is still staring back at me when it's time for bed. I've learned that's […]https://duffneysbirdbarn.wordpress.com/2026/07/13/a-day-in-the-life-at-duffneys-bird-barn/
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Sometimes chickens will lay a Weird Egg. Here's one! Probably just the yolk inside.
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Sometimes chickens will lay a Weird Egg. Here's one! Probably just the yolk inside.
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The best part of my work day so far (WFH alone today) has been going out to feed their #Chookesties and see that our Baby (mini wyandotte) has laid an egg after months of being on strike.
And also enjoying all the bulbs peeking out and so many crocuses filling the garden with color.
#KeepingChickens #ChickenKeeping #ChickensOfMastodon #KippenToot #Chookingham #ChickenFlock #bloomscrolling #crocuses
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The best part of my work day so far (WFH alone today) has been going out to feed their #Chookesties and see that our Baby (mini wyandotte) has laid an egg after months of being on strike.
And also enjoying all the bulbs peeking out and so many crocuses filling the garden with color.
#KeepingChickens #ChickenKeeping #ChickensOfMastodon #KippenToot #Chookingham #ChickenFlock #bloomscrolling #crocuses
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Gestern hatte es wieder geschneit. Die Hühner sind sehr unbegeistert und verbringen den Tag lieber im Stall.
#huhnerhaltung #chickenkeeping #garten #huhn -
Gestern hatte es wieder geschneit. Die Hühner sind sehr unbegeistert und verbringen den Tag lieber im Stall.
#huhnerhaltung #chickenkeeping #garten #huhn -
Someone ran out of toner today. Middle egg should be about the same color as the darker one.
#Chickens #KeepingChickens #ChickenKeeping #ChickensOfMastodon #KippenToot #Chookingham #Chookesties #ChickenFlock
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Baby of the famous #Chookesties of #Chookingham is back in #BroodyJail
It seems that any time the temperatures go too much up, she gets #Broody
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#Chookesties update
Baby was released from #BroodyJail yesterday and seems to be back to normal.
#Chickens #KeepingChickens #ChickenKeeping #ChickensOfMastodon #KippenToot #Chookingham #ChickenFlock
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Miss Baby is back in Broody Jail.
I had noticed she had spent about 2h in the nest already, so I went to check, she did the grrr-cluck-cluck so I gently took her out of the nest. She walked a bit, jumped on the log when I went back inside, and 10 minutes later was back in the nest. So I prepared her jail with food & water and sight on her sisters from another mother.
Last time she was in Broody Jail was in November 🙄
#ChickensOfMastodon #ChickenKeeping #KeepignChickens #ChickenToot #Chookesties #Chookingham #BroodyJail
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So, summer time started today.
I am feeling ok, not much trouble with it.
Bonnie, one of our hens, however, got super confused and was standing on the stairs to the coop in front of a closed door when I went out to close their feeder...
#Chookesties #Chookingham #ChickensOfMastodon #KeepingChickens #ChickenKeeping
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It's been a while since these gals featured here.
They're not really amused by the weather. They only came out of their covered run after they saw me (which means they get some scratch feed and bugs).
#KeepingChickens #ChickenKeeping #ChickensOfMastodon #KippenToot #Chookingham #Chookesties #ChickenFlock
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Having #chickens means finding the occasional Really Weird Egg™️.
Pointy, wrinkly, or simply ENORMOUS like today's find.
(Probably a #DoubleYolker 🍳🍳)
(I keep meaning to take pictures of our chickens, somehow a whole summer has escaped without Dedicated Chicken Time: hanging out all afternoon with a book, tempting fruit, and my good camera. There's always been so much else to do)
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Having #chickens means finding the occasional Really Weird Egg™️.
Pointy, wrinkly, or simply ENORMOUS like today's find.
(Probably a #DoubleYolker 🍳🍳)
(I keep meaning to take pictures of our chickens, somehow a whole summer has escaped without Dedicated Chicken Time: hanging out all afternoon with a book, tempting fruit, and my good camera. There's always been so much else to do)
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Happy to report that miss broody Baby is no longer broody, so we could let her back into the flock.
Which also means Betty and Bonnie are making it into the coop on time before the door auto closes. Since Baby is the night time alarm clock of the family.
#Chickens #KeepingChickens #ChickenKeeping #ChickensOfMastodon #KippenToot #Chookingham #Chookesties #ChickenFlock
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A pigeon landed inside #Chookingham open run, their #Chookesties quickly reacted to get the intruder out of their turf.
That was a funny sight of our little Baby (no longer broody, the three days in broody jail worked), Betty & Bonnie, speed up and puff up to get that ugly flying thing off their home.
#Chickens #KeepingChickens #ChickenFlock #ChickenKeeping #KippenToot
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Tentatively positive that Baby is no longer broody.
She got out (escaped) broody jail yesterday while I was cleaning the run & coop, and behaved normally.
This morning she's out and about doing what chickens do.
#Chickens #KeepingChickens #ChickenKeeping #ChickensOfMastodon #KippenToot #Chookingham #Chookesties #ChickenFlock
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#Chookingham now has a broody jail. We split off a couple m² in the closed run (with roof) with wire and put a smaller feeder & water-er.
Baby has been put in Broody Jail, and it is so sad seeing her doing the "I want out of here! I want back in the nest with my (non-existing) babies!"
Hopefully it won't take too long, she's already been broody for two days. (My watch just told me to chill the F)
#Chickens #KeepingChickens #ChickenKeeping #Chookesties #KippeToot #ChickenFlock #ChickenJail #BroodyJail
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In #Chookingham news, the late bloomer, Baby, has decided to go broody already 🙄 so we need to create a separate nestless pen for her.
#Chickens #KeepingChickens #ChickenKeeping #ChickensOfMastodon #KippenToot #Chookesties
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In #Chookingham news, the late bloomer, Baby, has decided to go broody already 🙄 so we need to create a separate nestless pen for her.
#Chickens #KeepingChickens #ChickenKeeping #ChickensOfMastodon #KippenToot #Chookesties
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Their #Chookesties took a week to turn their newly fenced outdoor run into a total wasteland.
#KeepingChickens #ChickenKeeping #Chickens #ChickenFlock #ChickensOfMastodon #Chookingham #KippenToot
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The clear differences 😍 in the eggs from our ladies, from left to right:
- bigger, plain brown egg: Betty
- slightly smaller, and speckled brown egg: Bonnie
- smallest of them all, white egg: Baby#ChickenFlock #ChickensOfMastodon #Chickens #KeepingChickens #ChickenKeeping #Chookesties #Chookingham
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Our little Baby has finally laid an egg! This mini wyandotte took 3 months and a week after arriving home to mature and start laying.
With @jan
#Chickens #KeepingChickens #ChickenKeeping #ChickensOfMastodon #KippenToot #Chookingham #Chookesties #ChickenFlock
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If you offer the hens weeds or greens from your hand, the ladies think they're the best. Drop them to the ground, and they'll ignore them tho.
They also love mock strawberries https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potentilla_indica and go nuts when we offer some. So we exercise them by throwing the berries in random places of the run (also, Baby is slower, so we distract Betty and Bonnie by throwing one in a corner so we can throw a second one towards Baby).
#Chickens #KeepingChickens #ChickenKeeping #ChickensOfMastodon #KippenToot #Chookingham #Chookesties #ChickenMusings
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So happy the coop is raised offering some protection & the run has a tarp cover as well, because their #Chookesties were NOT amused about the weather today (downpours with rain falling at 45 degrees thanks to the wind).
#Chickens #KeepingChickens #ChickenKeeping #ChickenThoughts #ChickensOfMastodon
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It felt like a splurge adding a €45 tray to their #Chookesties #Chookingham Palace (aka, the chicken coop), but it makes cleaning it a breeze, less than 5 minutes!
Raking their run and filling the feeder & water adds 10 minutes. That means complete weekly maintenance is anywhere from 5 mins to 15 minutes.
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Nighttime tales from Chookingham Palace.
As the youngest one (we think), Baby goes to bed about an hour before (official) sunset.
Betty & Bonnie, the slightly older two, often stay out for about an hour, checking their run and eating some more.
#Chickens #KeepingChickens #ChickenKeeping #ChickenShenanigans #Chookesties #Chookingham #KippenToot
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Random chicken thoughts:
- Baby (wyandotte) has the most adorable purring
- Betty is a bit of a complainer, and her distressed squawks are very sad
- Bonnie is a jumper and seems to be the most adventurous too (approaching feeding hands the most). She actually stepped on my feet & circled between my legs the other night when they got stuck out and I went to let them in.
- As a city person, I never know how freaking soft chickens are.
- I am kinda jealous of all those videos with hens that love to snuggle up to their human
- I have already pretty much asked that the next hens be raised from chicks at home (so hopefully they are more used to being handled) and probably all Wyandottes because they're so adorable.
#Chickens #KeepingChickens #ChickenKeeping #ChickenThoughts #Chookesties #Chookingham
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Today marks the three weeks of getting Baby, Betty & Bonnie.
Today is also the first day we have had two (2!!!!) eggs from the ladies.
Now to make them understand they need to get in the coop on time at night 🥺
#Chickens #KeepingChickens #ChickenKeeping #ChickenShenanigans #ChickensOfMastodon #Chookiesties #Chookingham #KippenToot
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Throwing the question into the ether, hoping someone sheds some light:
The last few days at least one of the chickens has not gotten in the coop in time (door closes at 40lx), and is distressed that they're not in. Baby is usually always in, and purring / rrrr-ing calling for whomever is not in. This after a week of some shenanigans but always being in time.
What can we do to have them all three get in on time?
#Chickens #KeepingChickens #ChickenKeeping #ChickenShenanigans #Chookingham #Chookesties #KippenToot
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Throwing the question into the ether, hoping someone sheds some light:
The last few days at least one of the chickens has not gotten in the coop in time (door closes at 40lx), and is distressed that they're not in. Baby is usually always in, and purring / rrrr-ing calling for whomever is not in. This after a week of some shenanigans but always being in time.
What can we do to have them all three get in on time?
#Chickens #KeepingChickens #ChickenKeeping #ChickenShenanigans #Chookingham #Chookesties #KippenToot
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Tonight's chicken shenanigans:
Betty locked herself out of the coop. When I went out to check, she was perched on top of the feeder, singing her song, sounding actually scared(?).
I used a red lamp to let her see where to jump, and then point at the coop's door. Our three ladies are finally in the coop reunited and happy sounds were produced.
#Chickens #ChickenShenanigans #KeepingChickens #ChickenKeeping #Chookesties #Chookingham
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Betty has graced us with a (cute, tiny, lovely) egg! First of them all.
#Chickens #KeepingChickens #ChickenKeeping #ChickensOfMastodon #KippenToot #Chookingham #Chookesties
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On the chicken front tonight:
Lady Brown (Baby) & Black Betty went into the coop on their own. However Lady Grey wouldn't / couldn't find her way in, and Betty got back out to try and get her in, and failed.
Sooo Betty got back in, and we went to get Lady Grey in the coop. She was acting like a tired toddler that doesn't know it needs sleep 🤣
@jan did the hard work today
#Chickens #KeepingChickens #ChickenKeeping #ChickensOfMastodon #KippenToot
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The ladies were a bit unsure this morning, so had to take them out of the coop. Hopefully they find the slugs the night rain brought out
#Chickens #ChickenKeeping #KeepingChickens #ChickensOfMastodon #KippenToot
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The chicken run & chicken coop are installed, food is ready, water is ready, we just need to go and get the chookesties. What should we name the flock / coop? For other names pls reply :)
#Poll #Chickens #KippenToot #KeepingChikens #ChickenKeeping #ChickensOfMastodon
CC @jan 🐔
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The chicken run is taking shape, the chicken coop was picked up & is ready to assemble (flat pack puzzle!).
Just gotta decide on the breed(s) that we'll pick up soon (no 🐓! no hen emoji 🙃)
#ChickensOfMastodon #Chickens #KeepingChickens #ChickenKeeping
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Chickenposting. The Black metal goth boi is (Leonardo da) Vinci, an #ayamcemani x #silkie cross, one of 5 chicks we raised in 2018.
Ayam Cemanis are originally from Java and highly pigmented, with jet black feathers, beak, and skin.
Their feathers are also #iridescent with a metallic green and purple sheen, like starlings/grackles.
#chickens #chickenkeeping #poultry #birds #animals #petchicken #photooftheday #picoftheday
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CHICKENS.
I wanted some for so long, and can't recommend them enough.
Chickens are so soothing to hang out with (tho watch it, they WILL try to steal your lunch!).
And!! They give you nice fresh eggs!! (no a rooster isn't necessary, unless you want to hatch chicks some day).
#chickens #poultry #birds #hobbies #chickenkeeping #pets #animals
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My #introduction list of hashtags
#cello #classical #classicalmusic #orchestra #amateurorchestras #folkmusic #music #englishfolk #comhaltas #folklore #boxaccordion #accordion #suzukiviolin #suzukimethod #youthmusic
#nature #ClimateEmergency #climatechange #ecology #biodiversity #forests
#chickenkeeping #chickens
#catsofmastodon
#generalpractice #NHS #medical #medicine
#citycycling #cycling #sustainabletransport
#family
#running #wildswimming
#diversity #equality #socialjustice