How to Avoid Chicken Feed Problems
Are your chickens laying normally this winter? Some are blaming a lack of eggs on Tractor Supply. Here's what to do if your egg production is down.
Working in the Honey House
Decapping, extracting, filtering and bottling are steps required to take honey from the comb to the bottle.
It’s Finally Time to Install our Welded Wire Fence
Now that the beehives are set up, we need to get our fencing up before the bears sniff them out and come for a visit.
Chickens at Eight Weeks: An Update
Our first experience at raising chickens continues to go well. These ladies are about halfway to early adulthood and should be laying in a couple months.
Two years of Homesteading Lessons
We've been homesteading for two years now. We've made some mistakes and learned some lessons that might help you in the future.
Homesteading Activities Kick into High Gear
As our last frost date is behind us and temperatures rise, we "spring" into full speed, as do our bees and the plants in our garden beds.
Butchering Chickens is Not as Easy as it Looks
My first experienced butchering a chicken turned out to be more of a challenge than I expected. But it was a valuable experience.
Big Honey Harvest Plus Homestead and Security Update
As summer draws to an end, we harvest our honey crop and some of the last vegetables from the garden. Before winter sets in is also a good time to check that all systems are functioning.
Building a Predator-Proof Henhouse
Losing chickens is a part of homestead life, but you don't have to make it easy on the predators. Take steps to keep your egg-supply safe.
Wow, Talk About a Busy Day
They say that when it rains it pours. That was the case today when all the livestock we had ordered months ago showed up on the same day.