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Have you ever thought about raising your own meat chickens?  I’m here today to give you the lowdown and my personal experiences, both good and bad! *Update for 2020- I wrote this original post in 2017.  I learned yet even more last spring (2019) when we dealt with extreme flooding and thunderstorms for a month!  I lost half of my flock.  One thing I learned is that even after 10 years of raising my own meat chickens, I’ll discover something new about them every year, lol! Cooking and eating chicken that you raised yourself fromREAD MORE

Learn some surprising facts about chickens! #chickens #homesteading #farm #poultry

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10 Things You May Not Know About Chickens I call chickens the gateway drug to farm animals! Almost everybody I know who moves out to the country for the first time gets chickens right away 🙂 I grew up on a former chicken farm (my grandpa had the largest egg laying farm in the state of Kansas in the 1950’s and 1960’s!) and we always had chickens in one of the old chicken houses.  We all had chicken chores at one time or another during our childhood. And…I hated it! What?  Me, who named myREAD MORE

pros and cons of free range chickens

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Pros and Cons of Free Range Chickens Raising your own chickens for eggs and meat is one of the first steps for your new homestead, right?  I call chickens the gateway drug!  Trust me, you start with chickens, then you move on to goats, then pigs, then cows, then who knows what else…. and your husband and kids are like “Please stop!  We don’t want anymore chores!”  Seriously, this has NOT happened in my life- ha! I’m here to give you the lowdown on all things chicken, but since I could probably right an entireREAD MORE