How Chicken Math Took Over My Backyard

The Day I Learned Chicken Math Is Real If you've ever owned chickens, you've probably heard the term "chicken math." For those who haven't, chicken math is the mysterious phenomenon where you start with a few birds and somehow end up with far more than you ever planned. It defies logic, ignores budgets, and somehow always wins. When I first started raising poultry in 2019, I thought I was getting a small flock. My brother and sister-in-law brought me three Royal Palm turkey poults—Knox, […]

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Starting Over, One Stitch, One Seed, and One Bird at a Time

Welcome to Duffney's Bird Barn If you've found your way here, welcome. I'm so glad you're here. My name is Misty, and I'm the creator behind Duffney's Bird Barn. I'm a mom, crocheter, bird lover, gardener, and someone who is still figuring things out one day at a time. This blog is where I'll be sharing a little bit of everything—backyard poultry, crochet projects, gardening adventures, homestead life, and the occasional lesson I've learned the hard way. Most importantly, I want this to […]

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Some of our replacement layers! These girls will be integrated shortly into our pastured layer operation! We chose a different breed each year for replacement layers so we can easily keep up with the ages. Last year we bought all Easter/Oliver eggers. This year we went with barred rocks!
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Washing and packaging eggs! Four more dozen going out to customers in the morning. One of my customers asked if we raised dinosaur's because of the size of the eggs lol. My response was not quite but we do raise all of our animals on pasture supplemented with non-gmo/soy free feed! I always take the time to educate my customers on the benefits of raising our animals the way we do.
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This is one of our mobile hen houses. We move these twice a day everyday rain,snow,or shine. Moving these everyday not only provides fresh grass for our hens it also helps to recondition the soil! This is one of our pastures we are currently trying to regenerate it has been overgrazed for years. I am amazed what you are able to accomplish with regenerative farming!
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A dozen and a half eggs going out to a customer in the morning! So glad our hens have decided to ramp up egg production!
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