Tag: Chickens
Know your Eggs – Homesteading
On our little homestead, we have many different egg-laying animals. I would love to get an ostrich or an emu……
Raising mealworms for animal feed
The Benefits Of Raising Mealworms Mealworms are an ultimate healthy snack for chickens, ducks, geese, and quail. They are jam…
Day 1 – Reestablishing Fodder
Last year, after my foot surgery, we put growing wheat fodder on the back burner along with many other things….
Garden & Happy – 8 Best Egg-laying Chickens
My friends over at Garden and Happy posted a GREAT article on the best laying Chicken breeds. Here is the…
Order Chicks TODAY!
I know that spring is when most people purchase chicks from the local feed stores. To me, this is the…
Growing Fodder for Chicken Feed – Day 8
Dear Jack the Cat, You are not allowed to touch the seeds… or the greens. … well, really or anything…
Growing Fodder for Chicken Feed – Day 7
Ok, so I am sure that you are finally bored with my posts on fodder…. I am just thrilled at…
Growing Fodder for Chicken Feed – Day 6
Houston, we are go for GREEN! We finally have sprouts that are showing COLOR! Day 6 is showing AWESOME growth!…
Growing Fodder for Chicken Feed – Day 5
Oh My! Day 5 is here… we are half way through the growing on the first tray of barley fodder….
Growing Fodder for Chicken Feed – Day 4
So the sprouts have really begun this morning and the roots are forming! We have 3 bins going now, plus…
Growing Fodder for Chicken Feed – Day 3
We woke up this morning to a bit of a change on our barley. They have begun to sprout over…
Growing Fodder for Chicken Feed – Day 2
Day 2 is kind of boring. We dumped the soaking seeds into their tray and watered twice, once in the…
Growing Fodder for Chicken Feed – Day 1
Day 1 – Yep, we are starting this journey of growing our own chicken feed for our hens (and a…
Fodder for the small-time farmer – general information
We are going to revisit our fodder growing in severeal weeks. We dumped all of the moldy trays (yes, the…
