Today I'm going to do something completely new for me... I'm going to talk about something I just started doing! I learned how to salt cure egg yolks a few months back and they are amazing! They're super simple to do and you really need to try it! Click for more posts on: I've made these about 5 times so we're just going with it today Also, I'm going to be sharing my meringue recipe soon so I'll give you a way to use up all those whites that we'll have left over! Unfortunately I'm not really a recipe developer so I don't have some great but long story prepared about how this recipe reminds of ..read more

It's also a good way to get a little bit more use out of things that might not be ready for the landfill just yet ..read more

I may have several chicken coops but not all of them have names. Why, you ask? Well, I couldn't find anything that fit for 2 of them! So they shall remain nameless until I decide on something I think is fun enough to say everyday and fits the esthetic of said coop. I mean, naming your chicken coop should be as fun as raising chickens themselves! Click for more posts on ..read more

If you're hatching or buying straight run chicks you can easily end up with too many roosters. Straight run is supposed to be exactly how the chicks hatch, which is usually pretty close to 50/50 ratio. You will most likely end up with more roosters than you'd like.  ..read more

A few years back I was helping Brinsea incubators with their displays and demonstrations at the Mother Earth News fair when it was in Pennsylvania. I had the eggs all ready to hatch but the one problem was that most of them were brown! When demonstrating candling eggs and incubation equipment you can see inside the egg most easily if it's white or cream colored. The darker the shell the harder it is to see inside. Click for more posts on: Lots of people that raise chickens for eggs like to pick and choose their chicken breeds so that . It's often referred to as 'a pretty egg basket' or 'a rain ..read more

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Except farmers live in between those stretches of woods and homesteaders actually live on acreage in the woods! They never even considered that some of us have farm animals and the dogs had never seen them before so they would be curious. Spoiler alert...if your dog chases cats and bunnies in the city, they're chasing livestock in the country when they get the chance!  ..read more

After all, they do like yogurt & fruit, plus it's mighty warm here in the summer....so I decided to make some for my chickens and I was right, they loved it ..read more

Hens do not need a rooster to lay eggs. In fact, almost every egg on the grocery store shelves was laid by a hen that did not have access to a rooster! It just doesn't make financial sense for commercial egg laying flocks to have a rooster since they're usually all caged. Click for more posts on: Well, he actually fertilizes the hen and she stores the sperm in storage tubules until she needs it. One egg is produced by a hen per day, so she basically uses the sperm throughout the next few weeks. When a rooster mates a hen, she can produce fertile eggs for up to 3 weeks later. So if you have a r ..read more

Obviously we had a discussion about it and I pointed out that yes Guinea fowl actually do need a coop to live in. I started looking into it a little bit after that though and found out that there are a lot of people that believe that guineas do not need a chicken coop to live in. Guinea coop if you will.  There are a lot of reasons why that's wrong and I'd like to talk about those today ..read more