Chickens are great to have at your home (especially if you like fresh eggs), but finding a place to keep them is not always a walk in the park. Chicken coops on the market can be hard to handle, may cost a lot, and are often too unwieldy to fit in certain spaces. For those…
image via: pixabay.com A chicken waterer, like so many products, can seem difficult to make on your own. However, as is often the case with store-bought items, anyone can put a solid one together if they take the time to learn the process. In fact, this is one of the easiest at-home projects you’ll ever…
We’re going to start incubating our own eggs again. With the way chick prices have gone up over the years, it just makes sense.
Food production on the homestead tends to create a lot of waste. Enlist the help of partners and feed scraps to the animals to reduce costs and shrink your trash pile.
Perhaps it makes me a lousy homesteader, but I never know how many chickens we have running around this place. When I’m curious about a general number, I simply have to ask a child. They must be more patient than I am is all I can figure. Now, daily egg totals are a different story….
While there are many reasons to raise chickens, there is one that tops them all. It’s the number one reason to get backyard chickens.