Learn to raise and process your own chicken! Students of our Raising Meat Chickens Course get on farm hands on training. First, the group will be shown how our meat chickens are raised, here on Squash Hollow Farm. Learn about chicken tractoring, pasturing, and free ranging methods. Students will get to handle, and learn about different […]
Livestock
How To Never Buy Meat Again… (And still eat steak all the time)
3 years ago I stopped buying meat. Whoa… Whoa… Easy. I didn’t become a vegetarian. Far from it. In fact, Meatless Monday would cost me more than it would save me. Here is how I get my family of 5 (… Ok, one is a baby…) enough meat for a year, without ever buying it from […]
Egg Laying Chickens, farm fresh eggs, the economics of an egg, hens, roosters, and raising chicks on a homestead
Chickens… They are the “gateway” animal. That’s how our farm started. It seems every homesteader and wannabe farmer starts with a flock of hens. But should they be? Do egg layers make financial sense in a world of $2 per dozen eggs? Listen to this months episode to find out! Check out this episode!
How To Butcher Chicken Cheap!
Farming is Expensive. There’s the land to pay for, the feed, the tractors, equipment, and of course… the goats to buy! So any way I can replace an expensive piece of equipment with something less expensive but still functional… Here are 5 Tools you need come Chicken Butcher Day and my Bootstrap Butcher Replacement tool that […]
