By Katie Ostrander If you’re like me, you’re totally put off by the chicken you see in the grocery store. Hard to understand advertising, cuts that see to be too large for a chicken, and what exactly is all that water from in the little …
Subtitle: Why Your Chickens Do What They Do & Say What They Say I consider chickens to be the gateway animal to having animals on your homestead. Once you’ve got the basics (shelter, food, water, and a place to forage) they are surprisingly low-maintenance. One …
Fermenting chicken feed wasn’t something I originally intended on doing. It was only after I had 32 chickens eating the same feed–which turned into us going through a 40-lb bag of feed in 4-5 days–that I considered it. I had seen some members of my …