How to Introduce Young Birds into Your Flock chickens chicks introducing birds new flock Jul 11, 2023

How do you add young chickens into your existing flock?

 

This question is brought up quite often to me in my inbox.

 

1-The first thing you want to think about when you are adding young chickens into your existing flock is whether or not they eat the same food. 

 

If they are...

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Did you know I created a cookbook? Feb 06, 2023

Even when you live off of the land, and grow your own food, you need good, healthy recipes!

 

A few years after recovering from an autoimmune disease I was diagnosed with over 20 years ago, my 25 year old son moved away. He (along with all of my children and myself) cannot eat gluten or...

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How to get a better hatch rate with your shipped eggs Jan 29, 2023

I can't count how many times people come to me to buy hatching eggs because they are so disappointed with the fertility and hatch rate from someone else.

It's important to realize that no matter how perfectly eggs are packaged, all hatching eggs will lose fertility when shipped or transported.

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How to Reduce your Feed Bill Jan 29, 2023

There is a program that you can apply for to get free food from a grocery store in your area weekly!

 

Many farmers, especially new people, are not aware of this program! Once you sign up it takes about a year to get in! So once you are done reading this article go sign up!! 



We...

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Don't Give Up On Your Dreams, Even if it's Hard Jan 27, 2023

 

When Tracey was 11 years old she lived on a small hobby farm with chickens, rabbits, cats, and a dog.  She grew to love that life. Though she ended up going back to city life, she never stopped dreaming about it. When she married her husband James in 2006, they moved to a small...

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