Chickens

Poultry Crumble and pellets are already formulated to contain the nutritional balance that a chicken need but all of the processes of crackling, mashing, pressing and heating the grains causes them to go stale and lose some their nutritional value- even months before you purchase the feed. I’d rather give my chickens real food and not processed food. Do you ever wonder why there isn’t an expiration date or best by date on most livestock feeds? DIY homemade Whole grain chicken feed recipe for for hens.

We’ve seen the fox climb up our tree, spring from one tree branch to another, gracefully walk across the tree branch that was hanging over the fence line, jump down to the roof of our metal garden shed, then leaped down on to a chicken […]

Today we are welcoming eight new chicks to our homestead family. 4 Americana’s, 2 Silver Lace Wyandotte’s, and 2 Buff Orpington’s.  We’ve never raised Silver Lace Wyandotte’s before.  Not absolutely sure what we are in for. Still learning about all of the characteristics of the […]

Mother Nature gave us a break last year but this year the hungry army of predators came after my chickens like a swarm of angry wasps, rodents skulking in the night, owls leaving their calling cards like the legend of sleepy hallow. Then the self confident and tenacious red fox began it’s onslaught killing four more unsuspecting favorites of mine. This was war indeed!

Meet Midnight! She is one of the sweetest cats that I ever had.  Pour thing, we picked her up from the local animal shelter, brought her home and discovered that she’s afraid of every noise.  Which is acceptable because this place is new and I […]

Four little baby chicks are making their presence in the house known.  You can hear them chirping outside  when we open the windows for fresh air.  Occasionally I see the older chickens looking around the property searching, wondering where these chicks are because she can […]

  My husband and I went outside this morning to let the chickens out.  As we did we were only greeted by four chickens out of six.  My husband and I started looking around the area. My husband walked towards the lower part of the […]

I’m sitting out front in a rocking chair enjoying the cool fresh morning. Birds chirping, squirrels jumping from one branch to another. I started thinking as one does with a cup of coffee in hand, eye’s gazing beyond the oak trees. Thinking about the blog, […]

Wanted to give you an update on our three baby chicks. They’re currently 6 weeks old. Man they sure grew up fast!! In a couple of weeks we will introduce the chicks to the flock outside gradually. To be honest I’m a little apprehensive about introducing them […]

Raising a flock of laying hens was our first step to a self sustainable lifestyle. We are passengers of this planet and as of right now, we don’t have another good alternative home, and most of us are living on this planet as if we have […]