If you have a flock of laying hens in your backyard, consider keeping a rooster to accompany them. A rooster is not just another pretty bird to feed; he can serve several purposes on your farm. Learn the reasons we love having at least one rooster in our flock of chickens.
Raising meat chickens in your backyard is easier than you might think. In this guide, learn how to take Cornish-Cross chicks and turn them into chicken for your freezer in just eight short weeks. A timeline for housing, feeding, care, and butchering is provided and discussed.
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In their first few weeks of life, it is imperative that chicks have a warm, safe area to call home. Learn how to set up a brooder and what to include to keep your hatchlings clean, dry, fed, watered, comfortable, and healthy.
The Cornish-Cross is the most popular breed of meat chicken raised worldwide. They exhibit unsurpassed growth, high carcass yield, and are docile and easy to care for. Here are the reasons we choose to raise them on our homestead.
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Using a chicken tractor may be the best way to raise meat birds. From a productivity, ecological, and animal welfare standpoint, a chicken tractor provides benefits over both confinement and free-range options. Find out if a chicken tractor is a good fit for your farm.
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There are a few things you can investigate to determine whether your laying hens are free-loading or contributing to your farm. Common egg laying indicators will be shown and discussed. Use this information to make cull decisions or establish pet status for specific birds in your flock.
The eggs you get from your laying hens need to be handled with care to stay fresh. Here are our recommendations for when and how to wash eggs or leave them “au-naturel.” Decide what is best for your family or farm customers.
It is extremely rewarding to be able to provide home-grown meat for your family. Here are the reasons we raise a variety of species of livestock on our farm. If you don’t have the space or time to raise your own, these can also be reasons to buy local, humanely-raised meats.
A well-designed chicken coop and run will keep your chickens safe and allow you to care for them more easily. Here are fifteen design features that you will love to have in a chicken coop, from fencing to nesting boxes. Portability, cleanliness, and ease of use are all factors that impacted our decision to design the best chicken coop possible.
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