Well, this year has brought us some relatively large changes as far as raising our own meat birds. (For a recap click Here, Here and also check out our Cost Of blog, ifen you’re interested.) First – we only bought 3 bags of flock raiser feed and then moved onto the meat bird crumbles atContinue reading “Raising Chickens for Meat: A Third Year in Review”
Tag Archives: Chickens
The Chicken Profiler – Polish
Welcome back to our series “The Chicken Profiler”! It’s been a long while since I’ve posted one of these blogs – far too long really. When the bobcat came in and killed most of our flock, I lost a lot of motivation to even talk about them. It was really hard for me to focusContinue reading “The Chicken Profiler – Polish”
The Cost of: Raising Chickens for Eggs
An analysis of the cost of raising chickens for eggs.
2020 Homestead Goals
I am so late on this But it’s better late then never- just in time for summer – our 2020 goals blog! Turns out that because of the late timing of this blog, we’ve already been able to accomplish a bit on some of these. So as to condense blogs I’ll be giving short updatesContinue reading “2020 Homestead Goals”
2019 Goals Updated
An update blog for our 2019 goals
Raising Meat Chickens: 2nd Year Lessons
5 things we did differently from before and even more goals for how we’d like to do it next year.
Homestead Update: April 2019
An update of our homestead happenings for April 2019
My Homestead: Should I Invest in Incubation?
A comprehensive Pro vs Con list of whether or not incubating eggs is right for our homestead.
Homestead Update: March 2019
All the Homestead Happenings for March 2019
