It’s the dilemma that every homesteader will face at some point in their chicken raising experience… how to tell if a chick is a pullet or a cockerel? Knowing how to sex chicks and chickens is a helpful skill to have on the homestead. Being able to tell male chicks...

I love showing and exhibiting my chickens! The spring show season is here and the summer show season is right around the corner! For 8 years I raised and showed chickens in my local county fair through 4-H. I have also made it a goal each year to attend at...

You may have a good start on knowing how to raise baby chicks, and you probably already have a plan for when those chicks are mature, but what about while they are growing? Learning how to manage growing chickens is important for the health and well being of your future...

Despite peanut butter and jelly sandwiches being one of my favorite sandwiches, I don’t get to have them very often. Maybe that’s why I’m drawn to making peanut butter and jelly snacks! These gluten-free peanut butter and jelly bars were a spur-of-the-moment snack idea that turned out fantastic! I wanted...

One of the biggest challenges with homesteading is finding someone to care for your animals when you have to be gone for a few days (or a few weeks). Some homesteaders are perfectly content with not traveling a whole lot, however, other homesteaders have the traveling bug, or at least...

I have incubated hatching eggs using both an incubator and a broody hen. Starting off using an incubator to hatch eggs made me realized just how much easier it is to let a mother hen hatch eggs! Honestly, I thought caring for a broody hen while she is incubating eggs...