Many chicken owners like free-ranging their chickens in an enclosed run and have quite a few protections around it such as a fence, roof, and guard dogs. But are these protections enough to protect...
Category: Chickens
As I'm planning my homestead, I'm doing some chicken math to find out how many hens I need. The only problem was, I wasn't exactly sure how many eggs hens can lay per day in the first place. Since...
Easter is coming up next month, and I have childhood memories of sitting down with my grandmother every year and painting eggs. So, you can imagine my surprise several years ago when I first heard...
I live in Austin, Texas, and there's a 99% chance I'll have chickens soon. While I prefer harvesting eggs to the whole chicken, the only problem is—will the hot weather here affect the hen's egg...
About a year ago, I was trying to convince my parents to get a chicken coop with a few hens. I was very persuasive. "You know? Eggs!". But before I approached them with the idea, I did a bit of...
While I'm planning on getting alpacas on my homestead, llamas might be the better choice. They have similar behavior to alpacas and can function as a livestock guardian, so other livestock can...