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Behold…the See-Through Chicken!

March 17, 2021May 13, 2021 dalarnafarm

I found this dude in the feed room stealing corn. I picked him up to remove him and made the terrible, TERRIBLE mistake of looking

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Paint Stripper Chicken

January 31, 2021March 17, 2021 dalarnafarm

Things I learned in the last 24 hours thanks to y’all: If you cross a Turken chicken (like Mr. Handsome here) with a Silkie chicken,

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Stumpy the Office Rooster

December 16, 2020December 28, 2020 dalarnafarm

Poor Stumpy…his long legs and tiny body size are definitely not adapted for South Dakota cold. I knew winter would be hard on him given

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West Side Chicken Story

December 4, 2020December 19, 2020 dalarnafarm

This trio is one of three rival gangs of tiny bantam roosters I have stalking the farm. Besides the #guineafowlapocalypse, we seem to have also

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Chicken Plops

November 10, 2020November 16, 2020 dalarnafarm

Things I didn’t need to do when feeling sick: Round up all the idiot bantam roosters who got themselves stuck in the snow all over

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Flower Pot Hen

October 12, 2020October 28, 2020 dalarnafarm

One of Evie’s 4-H banty hens decided to lay her eggs in a flower pot on the patio table. I didn’t stop her because, to

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Ninja Hen

August 25, 2020October 28, 2020 dalarnafarm

These chicks represent this busy lady’s THIRD brood of the year. I absolutely did not intend to let her hatch another round but she hid

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Effing Oreo

July 2, 2020October 28, 2020 dalarnafarm

Yesterday I introduced the world to our beloved, funny and charming Bantam rooster, “Stumpy”. Today I introduce you to the most vile, disliked and positively

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Stumpy

July 1, 2020October 28, 2020 dalarnafarm

Meet “Stumpy”. Stumpy is the most ridiculous looking animal on the farm (and that’s saying something considering Lloyd and the one-horned goats live here too)

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Life Choices

May 9, 2020October 28, 2020 dalarnafarm

It’s important to make good choices in life. Choices on where to go to school, what career to enter, what spouse to pair with and

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Former pro chislic judge, current farm blogger and (hopeful) future author, Heather Benson's official day job is as the Social Media Manager for her home state's PBS/NPR member station, South Dakota Public Broadcasting, ensuring South Dakota’s stories reach well beyond our borders. Originally from Menno, SD and currently residing with her husband and daughter on a small farm in Clay County, her official night job is shepherding her herd of Icelandic sheep, tending (an undisclosed number) of chickens and trying to convince her demented turkey Lloyd that he cannot, in fact, marry his favorite basketball. Her farm stories can be followed at dalarnafarm.com

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