Five years ago, my husband and I designed and built our backyard chicken coop. The design was based on photos of a friend's chicken coop and…
It’s late March, and a red fox has been hanging around for the last couple of weeks. That’s a long time for a predator that…
I have learned to accept the gentle smiles and assumptions of others when the subject of chickens is mentioned. It is always assumed that there…
Is any homestead complete without ducks? I don’t believe so; we've been raising six ducks since this spring and we sure enjoy them! I must…
Building a chicken coop, especially from scratch, can be exhilarating and exhausting, fun and frustrating. After all, a good chicken coop is one of the…
The North American Wild Turkey can be found in every state of the U.S., as well as in southern-most sections of most of the Canadian…
What started as a seasonal endeavor of raising turkeys for meat, became so much more. It was a pleasure to cater to our seasonal visitors;…
The popularity of keeping chickens raising chickens for eggs is undergoing a dramatic resurgence since the turn of the twenty-first century. Laying hens are making…
A Portlander guy walks into a butcher shop, tells the man behind the counter he has to kill his beloved chicken, it's old and sick,…
Whenever I watch Sarge, Ash, and Baldy waddle past me, I grin. Those three Muscovy ducks are the reason my partner Larry and I went…
The life of a modern-day homesteader is consumed with planning and projects. Whether it’s beehive construction, mending broken fence-posts, or stocking the pond, the expense…
Dollar signs filled my 12-year-old mind as I gazed, fascinated, at the hundreds of chicks scurrying under the heat lamps at the farm-supply store. The…
