A One Acre Farmhouse
On the hunt for a chicken who lays a blue egg? Here is a list of EVERY purebred chicken breed and hybrid (mixed breed) hen that lays a blue egg! Our list makes it easy to decide which type of chicken you want and gives you the knowledge to converse with local breeders confidently about […]
How can you tell an Easter Egger from an Olive Egger? What is the difference? What do their feathers and egg colors look like? Here’s an in-depth guide on each of these colored egg laying hybrids as we compare Olive Eggers vs. Easter Eggers: Olive Egger vs Easter Egger Olive Eggers and Easter Eggers are […]
Fresh Coturnix quail eggs bake just like chicken eggs. But how is the taste? And the texture? I’ll show you how box-mixes and popular desserts made with quail eggs turned out and how many eggs I used to replace the chicken eggs they called for. Spoiler: Quail eggs bake in a dessert beautifully! Baking Desserts […]
Everyone loves the deep dark chocolate brown Marans eggs! But with the darkest shades of these purebred hatching eggs now selling for $200 per dozen, many backyard keepers are looking for a more affordable option. Breeding hybrid colored egg layers has been done for years. The same process can be used for creating deliciously dark […]
We’ll share how to correctly breed F3 Olive Eggers and show pictures of the gorgeous dark moss shades our F3 hens lay! Plus we’ll share the specific breeding recipe we used to get the egg colors shown. Here is everything you want to know – and see – about F3 Olive Egger Eggs: F3 Olive […]
You’re going to LOVE this homemade high protein grower blend for your mixed flocks! At roughly 18% protein and 4.98% fat, this falls in the perfect range for laying hens and growing juvenile chickens. There’s no fish meal or weird ingredients. Just whole wheat berries, oats, cracked corn, split green peas, lentils and dried meal […]
If you have noticed a trend where your new pullets are taking forever to begin laying (up to 7 months), your older hens don’t resume laying until the next spring after they are done molting and all the eggs you’re getting seem to be smaller than they were in years prior, you are not the […]
If you want an incredibly natural, whole grain chicken feed recipe that uses NO fish meal – or any other special order inputs – you’re going to love this homemade recipe! The only ingredients are whole wheat berries, whole oats, cracked corn, split green peas, brown lentils, and dried meal worms. By using non-GMO cracked […]
Lentils come in a range of beautiful, earthy hues. Chickens will eat them dry but absolutely devour them when sprouted! Lentils pack a lot of nutrition in a single seed and birds benefit from the additional nutrients that are unlocked when sprouting. Here’s my EASY mason jar method for making sprouted lentils for your chickens: […]
