Each year we raise 50-100 cornish cross chickens. This fills our chicken needs for the year, with some extra to sell. Raising meat birds is a great toe in the water of meat production on the farm. When you get your chickens, you will quickly realize that there are essentially 3 big questions to […]
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Chickens 101 – Eggs, Coops, Breeds, Meat, Feeders and Fencing and Much More!
Are you thinking about making the leap into backyard chickens? Or maybe adding some new breeds to your current flock? Maybe you want to start a small farm business, selling meat, and want to know the right breeds to start with? In this episode of Homesteady we share with you a sneak peak of the […]
Chickens – a History
Here is a Sneak Peak of the Go Homestead! Course lesson on Chickens…. Enjoy, and sign up to the Email list to get access to the course when it goes live!
Chicken Housing – Coops and Tractors, and Electric Netting
What Came First? A Chicken History Lesson
How To Raise Ducks – The Good the Bad and the Abduckted
Have you ever brought a duck INSIDE your house to live? Do you have ridiculously cutesy names for every one of your ducks? Do you refer to yourself as a duck person? Then you’ve been AB-DUCK-TED. Ducks. How could anyone resist adding adorable, fuzzy, ducklings to their poultry flock? Whether for meat or for eggs, […]
