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Hello Everyone and Welcome to our Blog where we share all our Adventures on our Small Homestead in Alberta Canada. We recently decided to start raising chickens as we figured it would be a great family adventure and we would be able to now provide our family with something other than fruits and vegetables from our garden. Before we were able to get our baby chicks we had to find a coop for them. Now you can get just a tiny coop but we knew in the long run that we wanted anywhere from 10-20 Hens so we needed something sufficient in...

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Hello Everyone and Welcome to the Blog; If your new here we are a family of 4 who love to Adventure, Garden on our Zone 3B Homestead and of course our newest adventure of raising and keeping chickens in our harsh cold winters. Where we live we can reach temperatures of -50 Celsius and Below with wind chills for several weeks in the winter months. Our Cold temperatures and snow some years start before Halloween in October and can last until End of April. I think I can say that I have officially seen snow in every month of the...

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