Getting ready to process your first animals you raised for your families consumption? Wonder if you have everything to get the processing job done in a timely fashion? Watched videos online or researched equipment which seems expensive for your 10 birds? Here are the items we have invested in that reduced our time while also […]
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Are you considering adding poultry to your yard or blossoming homestead? Perhaps to offset today’s wild egg prices and rising meat cost. We raise both chickens and ducks. So today’s post will discuss some pros and cons to the chickens or ducks debate! Which will be better to start with or will you be like
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When I first heard about clipped wings my brain went to removing a birds wings. I almost wrote it off as a viable practice until I read about it in Storey’s guide to ducks. For further recommended reading references I am starting to write a homesteading book reference review post! Stay tuned. Turns out clipping
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If you are like me, you likely favor things made of metal over plastic. I tend to get more years out of metal products. Why talk about a winter plastic waterer then? I have owned the galvanized steel waterer in the past. We got a couple years out of them before the constant pecking deteriorated
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That dreadful sound in the middle of the night. A morning wake up where your wonderful flock has casualties and feathers spread across the yard. What can be done to provide protection for your poultry from predators? I have read if you keep poultry, then you will eventually lose some to an attack. Though we
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A small footprint, great benefits, and most importantly a healthy source of meat only feet from your kitchen! This is how we implemented meat rabbits in a small backyard homestead. The main go to for starting homesteaders is meat chickens in a mobile chicken tractor. Or in our case we let them run around in
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How to make your turkey shelter easy and not break the bank on current lumber prices! Build your turkeys this quick and easy turkey shelter. We have taken to call it the turkey covered wagon to protect from the elements while ranging in your field. Our turkeys are inside a premier 1 electric poultry fence
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The short answer… yes electric poultry netting does work. I have been shocked many times! Why would you consider an electrified moveable fence? Does the fence protect from predators? Do the birds stay in? Energizer options are confusing? What does a grounding rod do? How do I make the moves? In this post I will answer
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Lessons learned in chicken, duck and rabbit poop management. Small scale homestead, keeping smells at bay and improving the soil
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The idea of healthy free range backyard chickens and ducks is wonderful! It is picture perfect, right out of magazine and you can see it in your backyard! Well, we could too… Here we hope to provide you with the honest truth about adding poultry to your backyard. We will unpack a bit about predator
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