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Fermented Chicken Feed – How To, And Why You Want To

June 10, 2014 by LauraH 12 Comments

Fermented Chicken Feed - How To And Why You Want To

 :: Fermented Chicken Feed – How To And Why You Want To :: The benefits of fermented chicken feed are numerous and the process couldn’t be any simpler. Why: The fermentation process begins to break down the feed, making it more digestible. The fermented feed has better enzyme activity as well as elevated levels of…

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Filed Under: On the Farm, Tips Tagged With: Barnyard, Chicken, Chickens, Farm, Feed, fermentation, Fermented, healthy, Homestead, Homesteading, How to, Layer Pellets, Why

Living Your Dream

June 1, 2014 by Playne Jayne 24 Comments

Living Your Dream

:: Living Your Dream :: Regardless of what you dream of, I’m here to encourage you!  Don’t give up, even if you find you’re still far from it.  Our dream was to have enough land to be able to work toward some form of small farm life.  A hobby farm! – That’s the term for…

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Filed Under: On the Farm Tagged With: animals, Dream, Encourage, Farm, Hobby Farm, Home, Homesteading, House

Happy Chickens!

May 27, 2014 by Playne Jayne 1 Comment

Happy Chickens!

::Happy Chickens!:: Do you keep chickens?   Your hens are going to LOVE this!  I have never seen my chickens happier – and I know their systems need a regular supply of good bacteria, because… well… chickens live on the front lines with some bad bacteria. Help your flock stay healthy and happy!  You won’t…

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Filed Under: On the Farm, Self Sustaining Tagged With: Chickens, Country, Eggs, Farm, Hens, Homesteading, Kefir

Small Livestock Pen

May 23, 2014 by Playne Jayne 2 Comments

Small Livestock Pen

:: Small Livestock Pen :: Our homestead is teaming with animals!   We don’t have all that we’d like, but we are adding to our numbers all the time.  I think an earmark of a quality homestead is an increase that’s responsible.  Animals shouldn’t outnumber the homesteaders’ ability to feed and shelter them well. Shelter…

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Filed Under: Make your Own, On the Farm Tagged With: animals, building, Farm, Goat, Homestead, small livestock

Newly Hatched Chick- Help us Name Her!

April 23, 2014 by Playne Jayne Leave a Comment

Newly Hatched Chick

Newly Hatched Chick- Help us Name Her! For those of you interested in how Doe-Doe our surrogate hen is doing; I found her this morning quite nervous about being removed from the nest as we do twice a day.  I found she had one hatched chick nestling up underneath her breast quite happily! Doe-Doe was…

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Our Surrogate Silkie Hen Will Finally Have Chicks!

April 21, 2014 by Playne Jayne 1 Comment

Our Surrogate Silkie Hen Will Finally Have Chicks!

Just a quick note from our homestead!  With all the excitement over eggs this time of year, I thought, “why not share the news!?” We have a little silkie hen we adoringly call Doe-Doe.  She is hilariously entertaining and stubbornly broody.  She has earned her keep more than any animal on our farm, though!  Last…

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Broody, Chickens, Eggs, Farm, Hen, Homestead, Silkie

Chicken Fun! DIY Poultry Pinatas

April 8, 2014 by Playne Jayne Leave a Comment

Chicken Fun! DIY Poultry Pinatas

:: Chicken Fun! DIY Poultry Pinatas :: Unless your hens are always free-range, chances are you’ve seen signs of boredom in their run.  Chickens have a strong pecking instinct and they are nosy by nature! When you string up a piñata you take advantage of their pecking instinct and their nosy nature and provide a…

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Filed Under: Make your Own, On the Farm Tagged With: Chickens, creative, Farm, farming, pecking, pinatas, poultry, poultry nutrition

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