| Meet the stars of 2012!
Read their stories... 
Happy Quacky, New Year! Hatchlings Katy Kate Kate, a crested Khaki Campbell duckling, and her snugly chicky siblings wish you a cozy & well-fluffed 2012. They're celebrating "It's Okay to Be Different" month all year long. Will you celebrate with them?
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Attractive Mavis, a Mottled Java hen, and stately Galileo, a Single Comb White Leghorn rooster, represent opposites in breed conservation. Mavis' Java breed, is America's second oldest breed and considered “threatened” by The American Livestock Breeds Conservancy. Galileo's breed, on the other hand, is one of the most commonly and abundantly bred breeds for commercial use.
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People are a lot like eggs. On the outside, they come in a variety of sizes, shapes and colors. But, on the inside, they all have a heart of gold. Share your heart of gold and put an egg-stra cluck in someone's day.
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As Jaffar, an Australorp mixed breed rooster, looks out over the lush pasture, I wonder if he also sees a sea of green. While the naked human eye can't, chicken eyes are able to see ultraviolet colors. This proves very important during courtship. Using ultraviolet vision, Jaffar can see special features and patterns in hens' feathers invisible to us. Happy spring courting everyone!
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How can you have spring without the occasional shower to water the flowers? While she always loves eating all the big juicy bugs a good shower brings, Isolde, a Partridge Silkie Bantam hen, wears a bit of a scowl when a good shower also brings a bad hair day.
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Novo, a Barred Plymouth Rock rooster, lends a guiding presence to four cute chicks. During the three weeks that brooding hens sit night and day on their nests, the gregarious rooster goes about his usual “roosterly affairs.” Once little chicks start hatching, though, roosters, like Novo, are gentle and protective with the precious new members of the flock.
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A portion of our proceeds help support the following charities.
Old St. Patrick's Church(Chicago, IL), Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council (Houston, TX), Grace United Methodist Church (Manvel, TX), St Joseph's Clubhouse (Houston, TX), Bay Area Unitarian Universalist Church (Houston, TX), Bay Area Turning Point (League City, TX), Matt Talbot Kitchen (Lincoln, NE), The Unitarian Church of Lincoln (Lincoln, NE), Houston Center for Independent Living (HCIL) & Greater Houston Area Special Olympics (Houston, TX).
We encourage you to share generously with these or other charities of your choosing.
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Looking for a calendar that invites conversation, that is like nothing else on the market? Look no further. You have found it! An absolutely egg-clectic collection of daily events accented by newly hatched photography easily have this calendar flying in a class of it's own. It's a conversation piece, an excellent gift and just a whole lot of fun! (Be sure to read customer comments below.) Every month includes a short vignette about the featured monthly celebrity from the My Chicken Diaries no-kill farm family. With each new picture comes a new story! Fun stories, curious stories and a few educational stories, too.
Do you know when to celebrate
Dance Like A Chicken Day,
Egg Salad Week or
National Chicken Month?
When beer was first canned or kissing in England was once banned?
Simply check your My Chicken Diaries calendar each morning and you'll have an interesting conversation piece for the day. The fun you’ll have while doing so is just an added bonus!
Every calendar date has one or more events including: National and Civic Holidays Holidays of many different world religions Special festivals and fun dates of interest Interesting inventions and historical events Birthdays of US Presidents & notable people Phases of the moon, eclipses and seasons and fun, off-the-wall and rarely heard of calendar trivia
In total, more than 700 events. Well, fluff my feathers! That's more events in one year than some hens lay eggs in a lifetime. All said, you be the judge. Take a peek at a full October 2012 calendar page including photo, story, grid and events. We think you'll what you see will make you crow! The My Chicken Diaries Wall Calendar, with its 12 months and 28 pages, is ideal for the fowlest people in your life or just the casually curious and happily entertained. The twelve individual 2012 monthly calendars open to 11x17". Completing the 28 page calendar and for quick reference are 2011, 2012 and 2013 years at-a-glance calendars.
Save your calendar when the year is over. My Chicken Diaries calendar is more than a calendar. Share the photos and their story vignettes as a fun story book for kids of all ages. It's entertaining for all.
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Here's what others say about the My Chicken Diaries wall calendar: Loved the photo calendars. Many thanks. The photography is first rate, and though I'm not a 100% fowlophile, I found them engaging and cheerful. And they now sit in my office, so when I look up from typing, there they are, smiling and clucking at me. What a delight!
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Thank you so much! I delivered your package to Mary and she did chuckle and wanted me to tell you that she truly enjoyed the calendar. Thank you for bringing a smile to Mary's face!! | a really beautiful chicken calendar!
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Linda | | I showed it [the calendar] to the sewing bee and really enjoyed reading the stories about each chicken when I got home. LaVerne had told me how much she enjoyed your calanders - now I see why. | We have some people who are growing very fond of their exotic fowl that change with each month. We would like a couple of dozen. Grant | I about peed my pants laughing at the entries in every single day of this calendar. Did you know there's a real National Nothing Day? A lot of work went into creating this calendar, including the photos which feel more like fun family snapshots instead of posed pictures.
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~mariah
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Veline, Sweet Veline, a Norwegian Jaerhon hen, is a woman of amazing talents. If she's hungry and you're slow getting breakfast out, she can stir you into action by flying onto your head and then walking on your back while you scoop food. If you're feeling sad, she gives wonderful chicken hugs. And, thankfully, when winter days are short, Veline, Sweet Veline continues laying eggs while most other hens have gone on “egg laying vacations.”
.  Soltano, a non-bearded White Crested Black Polish rooster, is our rooster look-alike for Walt Disney's character, Cruella de Vil. Like Cruella, Soltano has a lively, animated personality. However, when people see Soltano, instead of frowning, they get great big smiles on their faces. Do you?
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“Yikes!” thinks beautiful Sharon, a Black Sex-Link hen, “If I were a rooster, I'd have black and white striped feathers and look a bit like a jail bird!” The term sex-link means cockerel (male) chicks can be quickly separated from pullets (females) by their coloring. Specifically, only Black Sex-Link cockerels have white feathers on their heads. Color differences continue through adulthood.
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In honor of World Farm Animal Day, we introduce our newest family members, goslings, Lizzie, a Chinese White, and Razor, an African Grey. The ever talkative Lizzie lets Razor know that sitting in the food is not good manners, even for geese. At just a day old, Razor is not entirely sure what all the cheeping's about.
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Photogenic Miss Latrice, a year old Mille Fleur d'Uccle Bantam hen, is happy to pose for your pictures, even willing to eat from your hand, but when it comes to resting on your lap, spirited Miss Latrice quickly shows you her flighty side. This Thanksgiving, she'll be dining with her fine feathered friends at their favorite spot under the willow tree.
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Breakfast in the chicken yard is a time for appreciating the interdependent web of life in which we all play a part - armed, winged, pawed and hoofed alike . We're reminded that December is a time of sacred moments treasured by many and celebrated in countless ways. May lovingkindness for all live in our hearts and guide us through the year ahead. amen
.A hot joke for a fowl day
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A fowl joke for a hot day 
Q. Why did the farmer feed ice cubes to her flock? A. It was so hot outside, she was afraid the hens would lay boiled eggs.
Ha Ha Now that's one cluck of a joke!
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