Getting the Farm Ready for Winter
Getting the Farm Ready for Winter Winter is coming…. It’s Kentucky. This means that today it’s summer and tomorrow it will be …
Category: Chickens
Scratching out a living
Why We use a Butcher (sometimes)
I am a homesteader. I do wierd things like mill wheat berries, pluck ducks and tap maple trees. I often write about …
Why Would Someone Want to Kill Their Own Meat?
Seriously, Why would someone want to kill their own meat? There are perfectly edible animals at the supermarket that are already dead. …
How to Raise Chicken Meat that is Not: Stringy, Chewy, or Tough
How to Raise Great Chicken Meat. We have raised chickens for meat. Like, a lot. You can purchase broiler chicks at most …
Chicken Butcher Bloopers – Look Away!
I just couldn’t resist…. When you process your own chickens there are endless amusing happenings. And since I always have a camera …
Butchering Backyard Chickens
Butchering Backyard Chickens Raising meat chickens is a remarkably simple, fast project. If you are raising Cornish Rock Cross, they go from …
Should You Raise Your Own Meat?
I know that raising your own meat is not an option for many people. If you live in a neighborhood, or have …
Grafting New Chickens into your Flock – The Pecking Order
I made all the unnecessary, spontaneous baby chick purchases in March. The baby chicks are no longer babies and were initiated into …
Yes. All Your Chickens are Gonna Die
My 2 youngest children attend a little, cottage school 2 days a week. I was there volunteering the other day with some other sweet …
Bring a Field back to Life in 4 Simple Steps – How to Fix a Pasture, run or field
How to Bring a Field Back to Life. If I had to pick a couple of things we are really good at …
How and Why to Use Rotational Grazing
Rotational Grazing Rotational Grazing is not just for cows. Rotational Grazing is the practice of dividing the land into smaller pastures and …
How to Buy Healthy Eggs
How to Buy Healthy Eggs. Between the low egg production due to winter (we don’t have a light in our coop) and …
How do you Keep Coyotes Away?
I love getting questions from you! If you ever have a question about our homestead, our life, or how we do things …
Farm Fresh For Life – Top Posts from 2015
Top Posts in 2015 It seems that many of my favorite blogs are doing some sort of “top posts for 2015” lists. …
6 Things You Don’t Know About Chickens
This is a guest post written by my 15 year old son. He is an enthusiastic chicken keeper, hard-working home-schooler, and an …