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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chicks were everywhere. I woke up and poked my head into the bedroom to discover that they had pushed over the cardboard barriers and had taken over the room. It was time to find larger quarters. But where? Not the living room, nor the original chicken coop. The weather had maintained it&#8217;s January interpretation of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=farmstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5705425&amp;post=101&amp;subd=farmstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the door to the chicken coop that had been selected as the new home for our fledgling flock of 100 straight run chickens was wrenched out of my hands and slammed up against the wall by the wind gust whipping around the chicken coop,  I could see instantly that my plans would have to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=farmstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5705425&amp;post=93&amp;subd=farmstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chicken Blizzard Story continued</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane McNeil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I drove into the post office driveway, pulling all the way up to the garage and set the parking brake, leaving my kids in the truck with the engine running since it was just starting to warm up and defrost.  I hopped out and carefully trudged through the snow towards the back door, then knocked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=farmstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5705425&amp;post=90&amp;subd=farmstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Spring of Living Dangerously, With Chickens</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane McNeil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ordered 100 chicks to be delivered in early April one year.  I thought that it would be late enough to avoid any nasty weather.  I was wrong. I hadn&#8217;t lived here long enough to just accept that even in May we couldn&#8217;t get a blizzard that could stop the world.  I had hopes of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=farmstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5705425&amp;post=84&amp;subd=farmstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Flock of Chickens Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I fell in love with the idea of raising chickens before I even moved to the farm. Actually, I had plans; really serious plans about landscaping a pond for geese and ducks and pea hens and chickens.  I wanted pigs and horses (the dream of all 13 year old girls? and adult me), and goats.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=farmstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5705425&amp;post=76&amp;subd=farmstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Living and Working in Barns</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane McNeil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I live in a barn. Whether or not you&#8217;ve ever even been in a barn, you probably have an idea of what a barn looks like.  Maybe you read or saw Little House on the Prairie, or saw a television show or movie where there might have been a scene or two in a barn. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=farmstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5705425&amp;post=67&amp;subd=farmstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When the power went out &#8211; Part Four</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane McNeil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I missed the window of opportunity when her milk let down, and soon, my tugging on her teats pushed her over the edge.  She kicked the bucket that had maybe 2 cups of milk in it and the milk spilled all over my lower legs, chilling me. So, Dave stepped in to rescue that poor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=farmstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5705425&amp;post=60&amp;subd=farmstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When the power went out &#8211; Part Three</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane McNeil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We put tall white candles in half dozen five gallon white buckets and lined them up on the walk in the middle of the barn.  We each got a flashlight to take with us as we milked.  Dave picked out the cows that he wanted milked first, and then it was time for my first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=farmstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5705425&amp;post=54&amp;subd=farmstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When the power went out &#8211; part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane McNeil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dave said not to worry, so I didn&#8217;t worry.  Instead I dressed the kids and we went outside to scoop snow into pots and pans and carried them into the house.  We had a gas and wood combination kitchen stove and the snow melted fast enough to take care of the cooking and drinking needs.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=farmstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5705425&amp;post=51&amp;subd=farmstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When the power went out &#8211;  Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane McNeil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a winter once, when we were deep into the dairy farming years, when we had a big snowstorm each and every week, on Wednesdays.  For some reason I remember that.  It would snow lightly daily in between these weekly snowstorms, which usually dumped 6-8 inches of thick heavy snow, blown around so that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=farmstories.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5705425&amp;post=49&amp;subd=farmstories&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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