by April | Last Updated: Jan 17, 2021 | Animals, Chickens, Poultry, Rabbits, Sheep, Turkeys
I love my animals! Love them, except in winter, when I don’t. Then they go from movie star status to unsightly object on the bottom of my shoe type of admiration. Through no fault of their own of course. They are just as quirky and wonderful as they were in the...
by April | Last Updated: Dec 8, 2023 | Canning & Pickling, Chickens, Daily Life, Gardening
So you’re interested in homesteading. But where do you start? Should you buy some land, buy a cow, start a farmstand, build a barn, plant a field of corn; there are too many choices, help! Calm, the key is starting small and then building up as you have time,...
by April | Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020 | Chickens, Poultry
Some chicken pecking occurs in all flocks and is natural to maintain order (i.e. the pecking order). Usually, the pecking is minimal and no one chicken is damaged, but sometimes pecking can become a problem. Usually, problems occur when new chickens are introduced to...
by April | Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020 | Chickens, Poultry
My chicken house and chicken yard look like a shanty town. I have a slapped together, constantly tinkered with, completely functional and flexible, eyesore of a chicken shack, which also just happens to be way too close to my house. Now this was not my original plan....
by Jessica | Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020 | Chickens, Poultry
Are you interested in homesteading or creating a more sustainable life? You live somewhere with a backyard, no matter how small? Start with chickens, they are the easiest way to provide food, insect control, fertilizer, and entertainment. I started my first flock and...
by April | Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020 | Animals, Chickens, Poultry, Rabbits, Turkeys
Now I know we all have an idealized view of homesteading, at least I did! Chickens and turkeys meandering in your spring green lawn, happily eating bugs and vegetation. Perhaps some lambs and goats frolicking around your fields while you’re faithful dog guards...
