“Daggonit! The book said I could move the eggs! It said I could move the eggs, and put her in a quiet place, and…
The iconic image of a mother hen, clucking gently to a clutch of adorable chicks, following her all around. This is the stuff of…
Raising Rock Pigeons With this article, I hope to promote the beloved pigeon and share with you about its husbandry. May you be drawn…
If you have purchased eggs from a retailer recently, then you know that the most expensive eggs for sale are the ones known as…
Remember that old commercial, “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature?” Well, as a young child of about 12, I found out first-hand why…
Our poultry tractors used to sit dormant in between bird batches, now they are used year round, in a variety of ways. Our multi-purpose…
The first livestock most new homesteaders bring home to the farm are chickens—and rightly so. Here's how to start raising chickens from scratch. They’re small,…
When I moved to this two-acre croft in Iowa, just outside Iowa City, I was pleased to become part of the management of a…
Hens are fussy about their nests, just like any other bird. Although there are many reasons why hens stop laying, dissatisfaction with their environment…
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…
I have learned to accept the gentle smiles and assumptions of others when the subject of chickens is mentioned. It is always assumed that…
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…
The popularity of keeping chickens is undergoing a dramatic resurgence since the turn of the twenty-first century. Laying hens are making appearances in astonishing…
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…
Thirty years ago my parents loaded my little brother and me into Dad’s 1978 powder-blue Dodge pickup and headed fifteen miles north to a…
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,…
A homestead can always use another source of income. So when you are ready to search for a new source of money, an animal…
What started as a seasonal endeavor to raise turkeys for meat, became so much more. It was a pleasure to cater to our seasonal visitors;…
Mail order chicks are a great way to start a new flock on your homestead. However, if you have fertile eggs available, why not hatch…
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…
