Posts Tagged Chickens

Determining how many chickens you should have per acre is a bit more complicated than buying a set number of chicks and letting them loose.

As homesteaders and farmers, we learn to work hand in hand with the changing seasons. When nature is your domain, thoughtful timing is your best friend whether you’re planting a garden or choosing the best time of year to get chicks for your chicken coop.

After a fox started sneaking around my flock, getting guard geese for my chickens was the best decision I’ve made all year. At first, I thought geese were just good for noise and territorial aggression. However, it’s been my experience that dealing with a bit of noise is totally worth their role as guardians of chickens.

So, you’ve decided that you want the best chickens for eggs. That said, egg-laying chickens come in all different sizes, colors, and dispositions. To help you determine which breed is right for you, there are a few more factors to consider. I’ll break them down below.

If you’re learning the ins and outs of raising chickens and all the lingo that goes along with it, you might have heard reference to a broody hen, so it’s a fair question to wonder—what is a broody hen? Basically, broodiness is an obsession with hatching eggs. It’s what happens when your hen’s mothering instinct takes over, whether or not she has fertilized eggs.