Tag: Chickens

This is the peak of production on the homestead. In a survival situation, this is when we would be packing on pounds to get us through the winter.

We have gone from harvesting 12 or 13 eggs per day in the Spring of 2022 to 7 in the summer of 2023, but that's an improvement over last month.

More than half of our young Black Star chickens escaped over night, and we don't know why or if they will do it again.

Our chicks are devouring their food, gulping their water, and doubling in size after the first week. In another 19 weeks, they'll be laying eggs.

Experts tell us bird flu has evolved and is spreading more rapidly to more species of wild birds which leads to more infections in domestic chickens.

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.

Here are the details on how we insulate and wrap our hives to give our bees an added chance to survive the winter, plus a farm inflation report.

With a hard freeze expected this coming week, we have to wrap up our pre-winter preps on the homestead, but it isn't all work and no play.

he Bird Flu has reached California and is spreading south as wild bird migrate southward. Millions of poultry have been euthanized.

Will chickens make you self-sufficient? No, but chickens are a step towards reducing your dependency on big food.