Our homesteading adventure continued this summer and fall with a new baby, a good tomato harvest, a fattened pig, home butchering and sausage making, new day-old chicks, and a brand new hen house. I’ll blog about each of these aspects in much more detail in the coming weeks, but here’s an in-a-nutshell update about us [...]
We bought six day-old chicks to add to our egg laying chickens flock, brooding them in May and June and introducing them to the flock in July. Here are a couple pictures of them during the brooding phase, which we did in a large plastic tote in our garage: We rested the heat lamp on [...]
Our new pullets have been braving the cold weather and snowy days quite well. In taking care of our not-yet-laying hens, I’ve learned a few things about winter care for a small backyard poultry flock. These tips are for adult birds; any very young birds will likely need to be moved indoors to a heat-lamp-warmed [...]
