How to Harvest a Hen… There comes a time in every homesteader’s schedule, when it’s time to harvest a Hen. Whether a hen is older and no longer laying, or perhaps you have raised hens as a source of meat, there is a time you will need to know …
Mystery chicken predator, broken eggs, dead hens… New, Reinforced Chicken Yard. The last weeks of June and early weeks of July were not a good period for our chicken flock. Each evening, as we went out to collect eggs, they were all broken in the nests. This started happening every …
Preparing for new Chickens… Well, it’s August 2012 and we are preparing for a flock of new chickens to arrive this spring. We are planning on getting 25 young chicks and want to make sure we have ample space in the Hen House as well as the ‘Chicken Yard’. Our …
