basic care

How to Help Chickens Deal with Cold Stress

Cold stress is an often overlooked condition that is nearly unavoidable for most northern homestead flocks. Learning how to help…

2 years ago

3 Reasons Why Hens Stop Laying During the Winter

Many foods that we raise and grow on the homestead are considered seasonal crops, meaning they can only be grown…

2 years ago

How to Prevent Chickens from Egg Eating

Egg eating can become a real bahviour problem once a hen aquires a taste for her own eggs. While egg…

2 years ago

Raising Chickens Book Reviews for Homesteaders

I love diving into a new poultry book and seeing what helpful nuggets I can dig out to apply to…

2 years ago

How to Make a DIY Chicken Saddle

Learn how to make a DIY chicken saddle so you can protect the hens in your homestead flock who receive…

2 years ago

How to Check the Freshness of an Egg

Collecting farm fresh eggs from the flock is one of the many reasons why I keep a homestead flock. While…

2 years ago

How to Prevent Chickens from Bullying Each Other

Bullying is a behavior issue in the homestead flock. Sometimes bullying can be the result of the dominant personality characteristic…

2 years ago

How to Save Money While Raising Chickens

Living sustainably is one of the goals on the homestead, and one way to do that is to be wise…

2 years ago

How to Care for a Rooster (or roosters)

Whether you have one rooster on the homestead or multiple roosters in the homestead flock, knowing how to care for…

2 years ago

Should I Free-Range my Chickens?

There is nothing I like better than seeing my homestead flock happily pecking around in the yard, garden, and surrounding…

3 years ago