When setting up, practicality, convenience, and space-saving strategies are important for success, and that’s what I love about building a chicken coop garden combo. When you use your garden to feed your chickens and use your chickens to fertilize and prepare your garden, you are about as close to hands-free homesteading as you can get.
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The practice of homesteading can find its way into one’s life in many different ways. For some, being a homesteader looks like producing your own food, making your own clothes, managing a small hobby farm, or generating your own power.
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Nesting boxes in a chicken tractor can be a tricky thing. When I was building my own chicken tractor for my first flock of chickens, I ended up trying a lot of things. Some things worked and others didn’t. The absence of a floor is a challenge
Read more →Chickens are, as I like to put it, the gateway animal. You start out with chickens and then all a sudden you have your eye on a few goals, a couple pigs and maybe even a mini Dexter cow. I have had chickens several times through out
Read more →When you’re starting out with chickens you need to have a place to lock them up at night. Building a chicken coop will be one of the first thing you need to do before you order your chicks or pick up some pullets (young hens). I love
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