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: 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 Jessica | Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020 | DIY Homesteading, Poultry, Turkeys
Autumn makes me think of vibrant leaves, warm soups, pumpkins, comfy sweaters, and harvesting the bounty that I have nurtured for the last 6 months. Autumn is harvest season on our homestead. I harvest my garden, fruit trees and because I choose to be an omnivore, I...
by April | Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020 | Poultry, Turkeys
There is a huge amount of information about raising chickens and chicks, and so very little about raising turkeys from poults. Any information you do find is almost guaranteed to be about raising commercial breeds like the Broad-Breasted White, in a commercial...
