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Homemade Scratch Block Chicken Treat and Boredom Buster for Backyard Chickens

This post contains affiliate links, which means I receive a commission if you purchase items through my site, at no additional cost to you.     Scratch Block Chicken Treats It’s been a while since I’ve done a post about backyard chickens so I thought I would share a homemade chicken treat that we make for ours. As some of you know we have chickens in our backyard, which we keep to provide us with an endless supply of eggs. Now, having fresh eggs and never running out is awesome and having cute little chickens running around the backyard is really fun.  I...

Getting Baby Chicks, Urban Homesteading, Backyard Farm,

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How to Care for Baby Chicks

Hi, guys!  Guess what?  We got baby chicks a couple of weeks ago!  Can I just tell you – those little chicken babies are so stinkin’ cute!  We’ve been having so much fun with them.  Of course the best part is that you just can’t beat those fresh, organic eggs that they give to you once they’ve grown up!  Have you been thinking about getting baby chicks for your urban homestead?  If you have, I should tell you a few things that you need to know when you’re getting ready to get them!  Before you start preparing to get baby chickens,...

backyard chickens, eggs, emergency preparedness, organic eggs

backyard chickens

How to Have Fresh, Organic Eggs (Without Going to the Store)

Hello, peeps!  Today I thought I’d talk to you about how to have fresh, organic eggs without going to the store!  Sound too good to be true?  It isn’t!  One of the best things my husband and I do in the name of emergency preparedness is have chickens in our backyard. We have a never ending supply of fresh eggs,  which gives us a good protein source in case of a serious emergency where we could not go to the store.   By the time we feed and house the chickens I don’t really think they save us much money, but...

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Problems Integrating Chickens

Yeah…so that integrating the new chickens thing…not so much working out there.  One of our younger chickens (who has earned her place as my new favorite), Jemima, was apparently pecked pretty good by the older hens.  She is a bit wounded now, so we had to bring her to “hen hospital” (a crate in the bathtub!).  At the hen hospital, she gets 24 hour nursing care 🙂   Poor Jemima 🙁           Problems Integrating Chickens     Here she is at the hen hospital after problems integrating the chickens…           What to Do If a...

backyard chickens, integrating chickens

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Move-In Day for the New Chickens!

Recently our new chickens were finally big enough that we could start letting them spend time outside more and also let them move into the coop with the rest of “the girls”.   Those of you that have chickens know that this is not as easy as it sounds!  The four older hens rule the roost and were not so welcoming to the three newcomers.  We have been gradually letting them have more and more time together (supervised to keep the little ones from getting pecked) and when we can’t be out by the coop to referee, we have a dog...

backyard chickens, prepper

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Baby Chicks!

Lately our hens aren’t giving us as many eggs as they used to, so my husband decided that we need more of them.  Do you know any tricks to make your hens lay eggs more often?  My husband makes German Pancakes A LOT, so we go through eggs like crazy.  So far our only solution is to get more chicks!  These are the chicks we got a few weeks ago…just three…aren’t they so adorable???  Here’s little Miss Butterfly, a gold star (sex linked, so yellow=girl)…my three year old daughter named her…   …and this is Jemima, Blue Cochin…     …and here...

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The Girls in the Coop

Around this time last year, my husband starting talking about how he would like to get some chickens.  Now mind you we already had six kids including a 2 year old, full time jobs, and two dogs here at our little homestead!  Now only half of the six kids reside here, but still…you know how it is when you are a mom and feel like you have too many balls in the air.  I told my husband I would really like him to wait a few years (and if I was lucky, he might forget about it). Not long after that, the...