Tag: 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.

How-to information for newbies plus tips and techniques to make raising chickens and getting fresh eggs quick and easy.

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.

Whether you prep slowly, a little at a time, or in big batches doesn't matter as much as being prepared when the SHTF. Here's what I did this week.

My first experienced butchering a chicken turned out to be more of a challenge than I expected. But it was a valuable experience.

Chickens can provide a daily supply of healthy eggs at a price that is hard to beat. Plus, you won't be affected by an egg shortage.