Introducing new chickens to your flock is something most chicken keepers have to figure out at some point. When we tried introducing new chickens to our existing flock for the first time we made one huge mistake and learned the hard way what to do and what not to do. Here’s the thing: Chickens are really serious about […]
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Raising Chickens: How to Get Started with Backyard Chickens
When I decided to start raising chickens I spent an entire year learning about chicken farming including how to build a coop ourselves. I’m so glad I did! I almost decided to spontaneously go and get the chicks and figure it out as we went. That would have been a disaster! I had no idea […]
How to Deal With Sour Crop in Chickens Easily
I’ve written about keeping chickens healthy in the winter but I didn’t realize that spring brings it’s own challenges, specifically, Impacted and sour crop. One day I went out to the coop to check on the chickens while they were scratching around in the dirt. I noticed that one chicken, Slater, was not scratching around with […]
10 Tips for Keeping Chickens in Winter (You Can’t Ignore!)
We are just loving our chickens! They are fun to watch and they give us more eggs than we can eat! We were lucky enough to get a chance to see a local farmer’s chicken setup and ask him questions well before we got our own flock. He was pretty relaxed about keeping chickens in […]
Feeding Eggshells to Chickens: How to Do It and Why You’d Want To
Wait. Why exactly am I feeding eggshells to chickens? I’m glad you asked! Eggshells are made of mostly calcium carbonate. Chickens need lots of calcium so that their eggshells are thick and unbreakable (well, not totally unbreakable, but you get the idea). If a chicken doesn’t get enough calcium she may not lay as many […]
How to Create a No-Till Garden the Easy Way
No-till gardening is my favorite way to maintain healthy gardens without chemicals. There are several specific no-till methods such as Back to Eden, Hugelkultur, and no-dig. But these methods share general principles that you can easily use in your garden. Whether you’re starting a garden from scratch or maintaining an already established garden, this no-till […]