Yesterday I put in the corn and beans, added mulch, watered the garden, spread gravel in the drive, cleaned out the gutters, put up the hummingbird feeders, pulled weeds, thinned seedlings, etc…. so I decided to take today off, as recommended by at least one out of four major religions. Here are just a few [...]
This week our chickens started laying eggs again! We’ve been getting 1-2 eggs every day so far. I love finding the eggs when I go let the chickens out in the morning, but I love to eat them even more! The store bought eggs can be down right depressing. From the styrofoam containers to the [...]
Our rooster came over to check me out (i.e. wait for a food handout) when I was taking pictures of wood piles (Yes, my life is really that exciting these days.) so I snapped a quick one at just the right moment…
A few years ago when Amber and I moved to our current homestead, besides spending all of our free time remodeling our house, we also made time to work on projects that would help serve our goal of becoming more sustainable. One of the first projects was building a chicken house. In the past we’ve [...]
When my husband and I first brought chickens to our new homestead, we jumped on the chicken tractor bandwagon because it seemed to be the thing to do. Since then, though, we’ve been assessing various alternative chicken keeping arrangements and no longer believe that chicken tractors are the best method for every situation. I’ve summed [...]
Well that was unpleasant. I’m sure as you become more skilled at processing chickens the entire ordeal doesn’t bother you as much, but I’m still in the I-don’t-really-know-what-I’m-doing-stressed-out stage. Nevertheless, the deed is done and we now have three chickens in the freezer and our rooster-to-hen ratio is more acceptable to the ladies. Here’s a [...]
We have six hens and three roosters. One of the hens is gimpy after Clyde tried to eat her. She seems to be fine with hobbling around on a bumb-leg, but can’t go forage like the others. One rooster was raised by a turkey and sleeps in his own coop while his adoptive mother now roosts in the trees with the guineas. Out of six hens, we are only getting about one egg a day – if we’re lucky. I guess it’s closer to five a week.
This is the story of Big Mamma and Little Peepers, a turkey raising a baby chicken on our farm in rural Virginia.
The Life on a Southern Farm blog is giving away a free chicken nesting box. It looks like a pretty nice design actually. I’ve never seen a nesting box made from sheet metal, but it seems like that would be much easier to clean than wood.
By the time I got out there she was long gone and Jackson was scratching at her face and trying to peck out her eyes. That was the last straw for that damned turkey. I went inside, grabbed my 20-gauge, pumped once, fired, chased a dead turkey around the yard…
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