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How to Feed Chickens When Commercial Food is Gone

If a supply chain disruption has resulted in the feed store not having the commercial pellets or crumbles your backyard chicken flock needs, we’ve got some clever alternate food sources that can nourish your birds in the meantime. Some of them are even free! Here is how to feed chickens when commercial food is gone: […]

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How Many Hens Does My Family Need?

Thinking of getting backyard chickens but you’re not sure how many laying hens you should buy? We’ll help you calculate how many eggs your household consumes and how many chickens are needed to produce that same number of eggs. Here is how to calculate how many hens your family should keep! How Many Hens Does […]

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How to Breed for Egg Color (with egg pictures!)

Beautiful blues, gorgeous greens, rich chocolates, petal pinks and chicken eggs so speckled they look like wild bird eggs seem to be showing up in everyone’s nest boxes but yours. Let me walk you through breeding colored egg layers using your existing flock plus a couple new birds with stunning genetics so you can have […]

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Using Welsummers to Breed Olive Eggs

Marans are the most popular dark brown laying breed used when it comes to making olive eggs. But what about using not-quite-as-dark but beautifully speckled Welsummers? In 2021 I began a breeding project using Welsummers to see if I could breed speckled olive eggers in the first generation. It worked and my egg basket exploded […]

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How to Leg Band Chicks

You’ve got an incredible mix of eggs in the incubator but how do you know what each breed or hybrid chick is once they hatch? I’ll show you all the tricks I use to keep track of each individual chick and the shell she hatched from! Here is how to leg band newly hatched chicks […]

Moving to the country

Will My Family Be Happy in the Country?

In 2018 my husband and I bought a farmhouse on an acre in a small, country town. We had all the same questions that any loving parent would want to know: Were we doing the right thing? Were we making the right decision for our family? We closed on our farmhouse without having ever seen […]

Chickens Homestead Animals Spring Hatching

Photographing, Packaging and Selling Hatching Eggs

It’s spring and everyone is looking for hatching eggs. Your hens are laying some incredible colors and you’re ready to start offering their pretty eggs for sale. So how do you start? Where do you advertise? How do you find buyers? We’ll walk you through every step of photographing, packaging and selling your hatching eggs […]

Chickens Colored Eggs Homestead Animals Spring Hatching

How to Get Speckling to Show Up on Eggs

You’ve waited years and invested a lot of money to add Speckled Layers to your flock. So why are some of their eggs being laid with hardly any speckles at all? I’ll share my tips and tricks for nourishing the girl’s bodies to hopefully help them resume laying those incredible speckles! Here is how to […]

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How To Get Cleaner Laid Eggs

Are your hens laying eggs smudged and smeared with poop? It is possible for hens to lay beautifully clean eggs almost every day. I’ll share the three simple tricks I use to ensure eggs are laid unsmudged and looking perfect! Here is how to get cleaner laid eggs: How To Get Cleaner Laid Eggs Just […]

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How to Feed Chickens When Commercial Food is Gone

How Many Hens Does My Family Need?

How to Breed for Egg Color (with egg pictures!)

Using Welsummers to Breed Olive Eggs

How to Leg Band Chicks

Will My Family Be Happy in the Country?

Photographing, Packaging and Selling Hatching Eggs

How to Get Speckling to Show Up on Eggs

How To Get Cleaner Laid Eggs

Get access to our FREE library of small farm signage, labels & handy garden + homestead printables!

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