A One Acre Farmhouse
Bantams (miniature chickens) can be bred to lay blue, green, and even olive eggs, just like their full size cousins! A few hatcheries are offering female blue laying bantam Ameraucanas and finally some sage and olive egger bantams. The rainbow miniature chicken egg basket of your dreams is now doable! Here is how you can […]
Did you know it is possible to breed chickens in a way that females will hatch in one down color and males will hatch a completely different down color, making it easy to tell them apart? Hatcheries do it all the time and buyers LOVE knowing they are getting guaranteed pullets! Here I’ll share the […]
Mice, rats, and squirrels get into everything, especially the scratch grain, seeds, and commercial pellets you give to your flock. Here is what I use to safely store 50 pounds of any type of feed away from their voracious teeth. Plus free vinyl-ready labels so everything is organized and visually appealing! Set up these rodent […]
Would it be nice if your backyard covey could pay for their own feed? What if they could bring in even more income? As urban and suburban keepers increasingly want these sweet hens, the lack of US breeders is causing prices to rise, especially for any quail who lay a colored egg. Let’s talk about […]
Just a little bit of an organic flower bud & blossom fertilizer makes your cut flower garden explode with color! It also helps your vegetable plants produce more flowers and fruit. This is the secret trick that farmer’s market gardeners have been using for years! Here’s my organic fertilizer recipe for HUGE blooms on everything […]
There are so many gorgeous colored egg laying breeds out there that it can be hard to choose! Do you want hybrid (mixed breed) blue egg layers or a purebred breed that lays blue? Easter Egger green or Olive Egger green? And eggs can come with speckling?!! How do you decide when you have a […]
Easter Egger Coturnix quail? Does such a thing exist? Take a peek at these egg colors coming from our project pen! Here is what our hens have laid as we have bred for colorful “Easter Egger” celadon Coturnix Quail: Colored Egg Laying Easter Egger Coturnix Quail There is a hybrid chicken called an Easter Egger. […]
A local chick buying panic is underway and lines at the feed stores are getting long. Everyone is scrambling to get their hands on just-hatched baby chicks. But you’re a breeder…so what does this mean for you? I’ll share some tips on how to protect yourself as you deal with the eager, stressed public and […]
My Great-Grandmother Arva was born in 1899 and turned 30 the year the stock market crashed in 1929. As the United States was plunged into the Great Depression, she adeptly managed the family farmhouse in rural Dicey Community, Texas. She planted a sprawling garden and kept chickens through the Great Depression, and for decades beyond. […]
