Whether you’re a fan of chicken feed, free-ranging, a chicken garden, or all three, growing herbs for chickens is a great way to supplement your flock’s diet with fresh nutrition. Many herbs and spices are packed with health benefits for your little foragers, so getting familiar with which herbs are the safest and healthiest for your brood is key when starting out.
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Raising chickens can get expensive quickly, so more and more people are brainstorming how to feed chickens without buying feed. If you’ve read my post on combining your chickens and your garden, you know that I’m all for cutting costs, saving space, and providing natural food for chickens and fertilizer for the garden in one step.
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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
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