Pumpkins are a fall staple on the homestead. Not only for cooking, baking, decorating, and carving... but also for the…
Egg eating can become a real bahviour problem once a hen aquires a taste for her own eggs. While egg…
I love diving into a new poultry book and seeing what helpful nuggets I can dig out to apply to…
An imbalance in a chicken's diet can cause the chicken to not receive the proper nutrition it needs, either by…
Learn how to make a DIY chicken saddle so you can protect the hens in your homestead flock who receive…
A nutritionally complete and balanced diet for your flock should help prevent a majority of dietary issues, however, sometimes dietary…
All chickens who are over a year old molt at least once every year, usually in the late summer and…
Collecting farm fresh eggs from the flock is one of the many reasons why I keep a homestead flock. While…
We've reached that time of the year where you get no fresh eggs from your homestead flock and it looks…
Bullying is a behavior issue in the homestead flock. Sometimes bullying can be the result of the dominant personality characteristic…